[clue-talk] moving Mozilla email

[Angelo Bertolli]

Jed S. Baer wrote:

>On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 14:20:33 -0500
>Angelo Bertolli wrote:
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>>Also, look at the command formail to reformat mboxes
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>I was actually going to post a question on that, before I came up with a
>different solution, since I did just actually go through a box-to-box mail
>migration last week, with piles of e-mail scattered all over a Windoze
>machine, to another Windoze machine, that alread had new mail on it.
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>At one point, I was considering using formail to split the Mbox files and
>re-mail the messages.
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>Except that formail won't split Moz Mbox files. Or at least I couldn't get
>it to do it. Or maybe it was, but my incantation for directing the output
>to seperate files, using the FILENO environment variable, wasn't doing
>what I thought it should. But as a test, I wrote a shell script that just
>echoed FILENO, and invoked formail:
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>  $ cat mailboxfile | formail -ds myscript
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>and got one line of output, on a mailbox file that had over a hundered
>messages in it. My reading of the formail manpage says myscript should
>have been invoked once for each message.
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First you might want to do this:

formail -ds <mailboxfile >> newmailboxfile

Because Mozilla's mbox format may be slightly different.  Whenever I 
save an email message from mozilla, it doesn't seem to be compatible 
with mutt.

Maybe your line above should be
formail -ds <newmailboxfile | myscript ??

Angelo