On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Glen Turner wrote:
> Ken Guest wrote:
> > I've been very bad and let my ~/mbox get ridiculously huge.
> > There are some 5601 or so mails in it from various mailing lists and
> > friends. Because I ssh to read my emails I use mutt (what else!) - what is the
> > best way for me to separate these mails out into folders of their own?
>> Copy the mbox file to /var/spool/mail/fred. Heat up an IMAP server
> like Dovecot. Run an IMAP filter program to sort the mail into
> various folders. Freshmeat lists about 10 programs, and if none
> of them suit you could always use fetchmail/postfix|sendmail/procmail
> to re-process the mail.
>> The copy the folders to wherever you need them for mutt.
Christ... That actually sounds like /work/ but being able to use multiple
clients is always a good idea (tm)
anyway, this is /my/ way of doing this!
touch a file for each mailfolder in whatever directory you've got your
mbox in, power up pine, making sure that the dir it reads is where mbox &
the rest live, open the mbox "mail folder" hit " ; " to bring up "SELECT
criteria :" T for text, A for all message
text & then whack "X-BeenThere: ilug at linux.ie" in & hit enter This will
mark all your ilug mail with an X (eventually).
Hit " a " to apply followed by " s " to save & type in the name of the
folder which you intend to save your ilug mail to, wait another bit while
this happens & once it's finished tap " x " to flush mails which have
since been marked for deletion & make subsequent searchs that little
quicker.
Rinse, wash, repeat for each list etc etc
& then for the sake of the people & love of the baby jesus "SET UP
PROCMAIL (or similar) TO DO THIS AUTOMAGICALLY" it's not that hard to
accomplish
Actually, thick mucksavage here has just remembered that procmail
itself or one of a shedload of perlscripts out there (including one in
the "perl cookbook" IIRC or was this "perl for sysadmins") can do this
from a cmd line & take a hell of a lot less time but that's a different
excercise if only because I cant remember how off the top of my head but
I'm sure that msn search would be of some use here to find the syntax ;)
ta
Ray ...
btw, how do you have approx 5601 mails ? shouldnt that be "approx 5k6
msils" ?
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