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Hi,
Thanks for these scripts!
I noticed that when formail detects a "Cc: " line in the email body (which is a frequently used method of copying people using git-send-email), the patch is split into 2 pieces, and a new ".mbox" file contains the second half. When procmail is used directly, it jumps properly over the "Cc: " line and outputs the entire mail into the same .mbox file. The disadvantage with invoking procmail directly is that I don't know how multiple emails could be converted to mbox at the same time (i.e. the "(t" command).
Have you noticed this behavior?

Example patch: Linux kernel commit f741bd7178c95abd7aeac5a9d933ee542f9a5509.

I think I've figured out the cause of the problem.

1. git-format-patch splits long Subject/Cc over several lines, like this:

Subject: [PATCH] iov_iter: Fix iov_iter_extract_pages() with zero-sized
 entries

2. formail -xSubject: output such Subject as is, i.e. with newline(s) in it
3. sed removes (some) whitespace from each of those lines, but not newline(s), the result is

PATCH_iov_iter_Fix_iov_iter_extract_pages__with_zero-sized
entries.mbox

4. procmail seems to ignore the 2nd line, and the patch is written to PATCH_iov_iter_Fix_iov_iter_extract_pages__with_zero-sized file
5. This file is ignored by git-apply script (it picks only *.mbox files)