If mb2md stumbles upon a "From " line with "@" replaced by " at ", e.g. like this one: …, then it throws the following perl warning twice: It still seems to have recognized the mail borders properly, but sets the file date incorrectly: This can be the case if the mbox contains mails which are imported from Mailman archives (or the downloaded more-or-less mbox generated by Mailman). The above example is contained in https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/aptitude-devel/2012-January.txt.gz