[pmmail-list] How to export .MSG files to Unix 'mbox' format

[PMMail OS/2 Support]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 21:25:11 -0400, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:

>I copied a folder of .MSG files onto a Unix system and using nmh 1.0.4
>packf command, tried to create a Unix mbox file.  However, all of the
>.MSG files from PMMail are missing the "From " header and packf wasn't
>smart enough to create one for me unless the message had a Return-path:
>header.  Out of 185 messages, only about 20 or so made it into the mbox
>format file.
>
>Can someone offer some hints as to how to get this done?  I need to
>move some folders to an IMAP server at work, using Netscape E-mail
>client.

All valid PMMail messages have a

From: 

header line. You could use any text processing language to write a
short script to use that to generate a

>From 

line if you need one.


--
Trevor Smith
PMMail/2 Technical Support
pmmailos2@blueprintsoftwareworks.com



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