From ff710ebdc63bf973825fc47dd985bcbfcc75334e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Harlan Lieberman-Berg Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 13:38:03 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add notes on postfix local(8) envelope headers. --- howto.mdwn | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) 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. + ## **Take advantage of tags that are special to notmuch** See [[tags special to notmuch|special-tags]]. -- 2.43.0