[pmmail-list] Converting folder to mbox file
Frank Winkler @home
pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
Fri, 04 Jan 2002 13:43:38 +0100 (CET)
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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