Re: converting old archives to date-based directories

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Peter Green wrote:

> Hi all! I've searched the ml archive to no avail on this...
>
> I want to convert an existing MHonArc archive from a single directory to
> multiple subdirectories based on month. I understand how to set up the cron
> job to do this for new messages, but I have about three years of archives
> (both MHonArc HTML pages, as well as the original messages) I'd like to do
> this to as well.
>
> Is there a good/fast/easy way of doing this?
 Good (Platform Independent) 
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        1. Get your favourite email client to sort all your messages by
           date. 

        2. Select messages based on a date range and save all the selected
           messages to a new folder. 

        3. Repeat step 2.

        4. Run MHonArc

Good (works only on UNIX )
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        1. Get procmail <http://www.procmail.org/> so as to get
           the 'formail' utility.

        2. Use 'formail' to sort the messages into folders based on date
           of the headers etc...

        3. Run MHonArc

> /pg
> -- 
> Peter Green
> Gospel Communications Network, SysAdmin
> pcg(_at_)gospelcom(_dot_)net
Others may have better suggestions.

Regards, 

AnthonyW