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kris@xerox.com (Kris Schneider) writes:
: the new ones have actually been appended to the end of that message.
: 
: So, the question is, what magic goes on when a message is saved to a file in
: mailbox format?  Which leads to, how can I modify that mailbox file so that
: mail recognizes those new messages?

I don't think there's many special things about the mbox file.
Only that Unix sendmail usually puts a line im the Form

From <user>@<host> <date>

in the first line of every mail message.  The Mail User Agent usually
seperates the mails in one File by searching for these lines.
If there's any line contained in the mail containing the word
From followed by a blank character (Space, ASCII 32), then this
line is equippend with a leading ">" character.  The regular From:
in the Mail-Header is the word From followed by a colon, and therefore
doesn't count as mail seperator.

If you want your news-articles be seperatly accepted by your Mail User Agent,
then insert the required line in front of each message.

-Martin
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