Re: Using R-mail in Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 07:51:47 -0400
> From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>
> 
> why I don't like mbox file format.  I had an occassion to do a malware
> check on a machine and the mail spool had a message in it with malware.  I
> ended up having to delete that entire mail spool file before all messages
> were read.

When (very rarely) I get a malformed email that stops Rmail in its
tracks, I edit the mbox file by visiting it literally, and remove the
offending message.