[Gllug] Another Quick Mutt question

Stig Brautaset stigbrau at start.no
Thu Nov 22 22:48:43 UTC 2001


* Kim Hawtin <kim at aldigital.co.uk> spake thus:
> i have several hundred meg of mails on one machine and five hundred 
> meg of mail on another machine compressed.
> 
> its all in exmh MH folders... i found out yesterday that mutt can read 
> MH folders (but not write?), so, what I would like to do is move all 
> of this email into one place an manage it with mutt so that i can ssh 
> into my home machine and keep it all in one place.
> 
> does anyone have any pointers to useful UTLS or experience moving mail 
> from MH folders to mutt?

Enter the mh-folder, enter the magical command 
	
	$ cat * > mbox 

and voila, something that seems remarkably like an mbox-format folder
appears (someone will probably tell me that it is indeed *not* an
mbox-folder, but it has always worked for me anyway).

Regards,
Stig

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