# that the two characters preceding "From " are \n\n or the beginning of
# the file. Fixing this would require a more extensive rewrite than is
# necessary. For convenience, we've added a PortableUnixMailbox class
- # which uses the more lenient _fromlinepattern regular expression.
+ # which does no checking of the format of the 'From' line.
_fromlinepattern = r"From \s*[^\s]+\s+\w\w\w\s+\w\w\w\s+\d?\d\s+" \
r"\d?\d:\d\d(:\d\d)?(\s+[^\s]+)?\s+\d\d\d\d\s*$"