[pmmail-list] Rexx archive mail script (was Re: Looking for Rexx Script)

[Simon Bowring]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:11:37 +0100 (BST), Simon Bowring wrote:

>I'd like to archive (copy) a large PMMail/2 message folder, but 
>I'd  like to rename the files too.

Well I wrote one in the end and am publicising it here in case
anyone else is interested (the script contains lots of fairly
well written(!?) code for parsing email headers and addresses 
etc etc).

The script archives (COPIES) files from a mail folder to a backup 
direcory. The script works with PMMail/2 for OS/2 and *SHOULD*
also work with PMMail2000 and IBM Rexx for Windows, but I cannot 
test this. 

The archived emails are also (optionally) HTML-ised and 
concatenated onto a file called "email.html" in the same
directory. This is intended for viewing in a browser, 
importing into a word processor and/or pretty-printing etc.
The HTML file also contains hyperlinks to each "raw" 
exported email file.

The filenames of the exported files are MODIFIED such that the 
name additionally contains the email stems of the To: and From: 
addresses plus the first 30 chars of the subject (with special 
chars etc replaced!):

 e.g. GEM9Q70.MSG gets copied to:
      GEM9Q70_Status_Report_TO_sbowring_FROM_verena_buchanan.txt 

Can I post attachments to this list? (or if you'd like a copy,
email me and I'll send a copy to you directly).

Anyone?

Simon

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