Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:31:01 +0200 From: Frank Reppin <frank.reppin@boerde.de> To: David.Bear@asu.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: advice re mail Message-ID: <3F720D15.1080704@boerde.de> In-Reply-To: <20030924135543.F16613@asu.edu> References: <20030924135543.F16613@asu.edu>
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Hi,
David Bear wrote:
> I need to write a program the grabs mail from a standard mail folder
> and processes it.
>
> The trouble is I have no idea what mail file format FreeBSD uses by
> default. I am using postfix, and currently postfix is my mta and mda.
> I will be adding procmail as the mda. I'm guessing procmail writes
> the same kind of file the postfix does... but here I'm showing my
> ignorance.
the default behaviour is - afaict - mbox format. Thus you'll
have all mail in ``one'' more or less big file per user.
These files are stored in /var/mail (at least by default whilst using
postfix1 on a 4.3 and 4.7 fbsd) and carry the name of their respective
account.
> I will be using python as my language and there are modules for MH,
> maildir, mbox, and mailbox... Anyone have any recommended reading for
> me to better understand what I need to do?
Well I've once hacked/reorganized (with the help of the cyrus
ML/archives) sth to convert such an single mbox into cyrus imapd format
(it utilizes `man 1 formmail`) ... since this process walks through
every single mail in given ``mbox'' files it might be of interest for
you or at least give you an idea on how to deal with this issue - if so
- please drop me a line and I'll happily sent you the necessary scripts.
btw - these scripts are in perl - but not perl specific (doesnt use
specific perl modules).
best regards,
frank
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