From: Harlan Lieberman-Berg <hlieberman@setec.io>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 18:38:03 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Add notes on postfix local(8) envelope headers.
X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?p=notmuch-wiki;a=commitdiff_plain;h=ff710ebdc63bf973825fc47dd985bcbfcc75334e

Add notes on postfix local(8) envelope headers.
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diff --git a/howto.mdwn b/howto.mdwn
index c712124..d021994 100644
--- a/howto.mdwn
+++ b/howto.mdwn
@@ -126,6 +126,11 @@ output.  Using the instructions from [Gmane's
 site](http://gmane.org/export.php), we can download an mbox file, which we
 can then convert to maildir using mb2md or other utility.
 
+Please note that mail delivered by Postfix will have envelope headers
+that may cause notmuch to complain about "single-message mbox files".
+Removing the first line from the message or passing it through
+reformail will solve the problem.
+
 ## <span id="special_tags">**Take advantage of tags that are special to notmuch**</span>
 
 See [[tags special to notmuch|special-tags]].