Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:41:46 -0800 From: Pete <freebsd-questions-2@voidcaptain.com> To: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: splitting Mbox file thread-sorted Message-ID: <4AF370CA.6000307@voidcaptain.com> In-Reply-To: <11167f520911051358o3581b15x2c73e616df3bf9e3@mail.gmail.com> References: <20091105131339.GA3804@current.Sisis.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911051218270.4019@qvzrafvba.5c.ybpny> <11167f520911051358o3581b15x2c73e616df3bf9e3@mail.gmail.com>
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Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: > On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:20 AM, jhell <jhell@dataix.net> wrote: >> On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 08:13, guru@ wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Is there some tool or something in the ports which could split a Mbox >>> file into various pieces, but having the threads together? I could do >>> it by hand with mutt, but I think it must be some tool for this too; >>> Thx >>> >>> matthias >>> >> >> To my best belief mail/procmail should be able to do what you want with >> the proper recipe and then just re-filtering your mail from your mbox. > > if anyone could post a procmail recipe that would be GREAT. I have > been wanting to do this. > > Sam Fourman Jr. > Fourman Networks Dunno about procmail, but it's easy to resort with maildrop: reformail -s maildrop < mbox_file will cause the whole mbox_file to be broken into individual messages that are then (re)processed by your current maildrop configuration (using your current .mailfilter). The reformail program comes with maildrop; see the man page.
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