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

[Jon Reynolds]

Hi,

Thanks for quick answers. Using that mb2md.pl script worked fine for
retrieving the odd bits of mail (old nothing funny going on) from
/var/mail/jonr.

But when I tried to use it on 'sent' it said:

Fatal: Source is not an mbox file or a directory!

It is literally just a single file and yes, all messages within start
with the From: line.

Thanks

Jon 

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 09:39:28AM +0000, Dave Cridland wrote:
> 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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