Hi to all,
first of all a big thanks to he authors of procmail and formail!
They make life so much easier..
I have a couple of questions, which I could probably solve but
they probably have already been solved by others..
Suppose I have a mbox file with lots of messages from and to many people.
What would be the formail (I suppose) invocation which would create from it
separate mbox files for each sender, and put of course the corresponding
messages
in these mboxes?
So, if I have
From a1 gfjhksgf
From a1 fdgdg
From a2 dfjhgkfdkjgh
etc. etc.
I would get files say sender.a1 containing
From a1 gfjhksgf
From a1 fdgdg
and sender.a2 containing From a2 dfjhgkfdkjgh
and so on?
Question 2:
In these same mboxes there are saved messages sent by me using the generic
mail program and recorded in an outgoing messages mbox.
They are saved as:
From vetoulis Mon Jun 12 04:34:38 1995
To: recipient
Subject: subject
Status: O
X-Status:
body..
For purposes of sorting these mboxes by time using something like pine,
I see that I need a Date: field, which is not created at the time
the outgoing message is recorded. How can I use formail so that it will add
the Date field to messages which do not have it, using the information from
the '^From vetoulis etc.' line?
I would appreciate any help or pointers to files or starting points from
which I could build the recipes.
Thanks
Georgios Vetoulis a.k.a. Γιώργος Βετούλης
http://w3.pppl.gov/~vetoulis
Department of Physics, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093-0319