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Re: Converting message files to mbox

2002-02-01 22:49:19
I asked,

| >Wouldn't one call to cat that saves n-1 calls to formail be helpful?
| >
| > cat `ls -rt *.MSG` | formail -IContent-Length: -s >> oldmail.mbx

Philip responded,

| Kenneth had clarified in a latter message that the files didn't start with
| "From " lines, so the above would possibly result in input to formail
| that can't be reliably split.

Hmm.  And depending on content, formail -des can be fooled as well.  Good
point.



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