Re: [ILUG] Merging mbox files

From: Waider (waider at domain dspsrv.com)
Date: Thu 11 Apr 2002 - 09:19:55 IST


According to Niall O Broin:
> It seems to me that there's a superfluous use of formail here but as I
> cobbled this together from google and guesswork, I didn't want to try to fix
> it. I've a suspicion that I should be able to do something like
>
> cat mailbox*|formail -D 500000 msgid.cache -s procmail other_noduperc
>
> where other_noduperc is ? ? ? ?
>

Not sure, to be honest. The last time I had to do a task like this was in the
middle of a whole lot of other mailbox frobbing (cleaning out MUA-specific
headers, cleaning up addresses, etc.) and since I was already hacking in
Perl I just used a big ol' hash of message IDs.

Cheers,
Waider.

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