[SWLUG] Mail from File and /var/mail/

[Dave Cridland]

On Wed Feb 16 09:30:38 2011, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> 1. There is a file in my home dir that is a relic from a period of  
> time
> where mutt was putting copies of sent mail into a file called  
> '~/sent'
> This is therefore just a file, not a directory, with what seems to  
> be
> mail, back to back in it. I use a maildir format and was wondering  
> how I
> could extract the mail from this file and put it into the correct
> maildir place. i.e. ~/Maildir/.Sent Items/cur/
> 
> 
It'll be in mbox format, probably. Does it have separator lines  
beginning "From "?

The easiest way to move the messages would be to use a proper MUA  
which understands both formats.


> 2. I keep getting a message saying I havemail in /var/mail/jonr
> How do I retrieve that?

That, too, will be an mbox format file.

You can read it with the good old, venerable, "mail" command, or  
almost any other UNIX classic MUA.

Or:

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=mbox+maildir+converter

Seemed to have promising responses.

(I use neither mbox nor maildir, so I have no clue if these are any  
use).

Dave.
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