[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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