Andy (a familiar face from another list),
I am trying to filter some old mailboxes (downloaded with Netscape
4.7) in mbox format through procmail.
Using the command:
cat $mbox_file | formail -b -f -s procmail
UUCA! UUCA!
and the .procmailrc recipe:
:0r:
mail/mailbox.mbox
my messages seem to be bunched up into one large 68MB email. Looking
at the mail in mutt shows one mail followed by another, but the From
line in the second email is escaped:
From - Sun Jun 11 00:39:51 2000
The original mbox file from Netscape is readable just fine in mutt,
but after I pipe it through procmail/formail, the From lines are
escaped.
Am I missing something? How do I keep the From lines from being escaped.
Very likely there is no blank line before each From_ timestamp in the
input. Try formail's -e option:
formail -bfes procmail < $mbox_file
and make absolutely sure that nothing in procmail's rcfiles stores
anything back in $mbox_file, or you'll be looping.
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