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using TB with POP3 to put email into local Inbox folder/file

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Been using TB for about one month. When I look at the real Inbox with a text editor, the first two messages received in mid-September have the initial "From" line which separates messages looking like this: 

  From - Thu Sep 12 13:02:54 2024

All the other messages I have received (and stored locally) since then have their initial "From" lines that look like this: 

  From ^M

where my text editor displays a carriage return as ^M (caret cap M). There is no hyphen and there is no timestamp for all the other (later) messages. I have upgraded (recompiled) TB at least a couple of times since those first two messages arrived. In TB everything looks fine, but if I use a different MUA to attempt to read and display the several hundred messages that are in this Inbox, only the first two messages from mid September show up. Could this be a bug? The TB Inbox is formatted in standard mbox format, and should be readable using a different MUA.

Am I missing something? Thank you in advance.

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Been using TB for about one month. When I look at the real Inbox with a text editor, the first two messages received in mid-September have the initial "From" line which separates messages looking like this: From - Thu Sep 12 13:02:54 2024 All the other messages I have received (and stored locally) since then have their initial "From" lines that look like this: From ^M where my text editor displays a carriage return as ^M (caret cap M). There is no hyphen and there is no timestamp for all the other (later) messages. I have upgraded (recompiled) TB at least a couple of times since those first two messages arrived. In TB everything looks fine, but if I use a different MUA to attempt to read and display the several hundred messages that are in this Inbox, only the first two messages from mid September show up. Could this be a bug? The TB Inbox is formatted in standard mbox format, and should be readable using a different MUA. Am I missing something? Thank you in advance. .

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