[pmmail-list] Converting folder to mbox file

[Frank Winkler @home]

On 03 Jan 2002 11:12:37 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:

 >Anyone know of a utility for converting a folder full of individual
 >messages into a standard mbox file?

This direction should be rather easy ... just glue all the files to one single 
file, separating the messages by a blank line or a five subsequent CTRL-As in 
case of a MMDF file. Better make sure that every message starts with a copy of 
the "From: " line, omitting the colon.

So, in sh style and using the well-known UNIX tools, something like

	cp NUL: mbox
	for file in *.msg do
	  grep "From: " $file | tr -d ':' >> mbox
	  cat $file >> mbox
	  echo "" >> mbox
	done

should do the job. This can easily adapted to any other shell like 4OS2 but I  
use this one only as my interactive shell ;) ...

Regards

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