Terry Todd said:
I am subscribed to some mailing lists that I would like to separate
out into their own mail files before I run mhonarc on them.
Does anyone have any pointers? I know filter sorts out mail as
it comes in. I would rather have a program that I can run on
a mailbox and have it sort them out. In other words I would like
all mail from mailing list 1 to end up in 1 file and all mail from
mailing list 2 to end up in a second file and all other mail to
stay in my mailbox.
I had the same problem some time ago. My solution was to use a small
perl script to read the mbox file and pipe each message into procmail.
I used a simple (dump) rule to save a mailing list into a seperate
mbox file. I append the perl script and procmailrc file at the end as
an example.
BTW mhonarc is great!
Totally agreed.
Achim
==> x.doit <==
#
# Usage: perl x.doit mbox1 mbox2 ...
# the filtered output is written to x.box (see x.procmailrc)
#
$i=0;
#$cmd = "cat -n";
$cmd = "procmail $ENV{PWD}/x.procmailrc";
while ($line = <ARGV>) {
if ($line =~ /^From /) {
close OUT if $i;
$i++;
#print "*" x 80, "\n";
print sprintf("mail # %d\n",$i);
open OUT, "| $cmd";
}
print OUT $line;
}
==> x.procmailrc <==
#VERBOSE=on
#save all hyper-g mail to a seperate mbox file
MY_MBOX=/home/ach/data1/mbox/x.mbox
:0: $MY_MBOX$LOCKEXT
* ^TO(hyper-g@)
* !From ach
* !Return-path: ach
{
:0
$MY_MBOX
}
#everything else is writen to /dev/null
:0: $MY_MBOX$LOCKEXT
* ^.
/dev/null
