Converting Mail from Evolution for Mutt

Peter Hoffmann ph at peter-hoffmann.com
Fri Sep 9 23:28:33 UTC 2005


Carthik Sharma schrieb:
> On 9/9/05, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
> 
>>
>>Check the linkn in my first reply.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks Magnus, I had missed that link the first time around:
> 
> So that would give me an mbox file, but how do I get the mails in it 
> filtered and filed like the rest of my incoming mail would be. I wish to 
> setup filters using procmail (recipes?) so that the mail that arrives from 
> this point on will be put in the proper folders, but with the _existing_ 
> messages exported from evolution - how do I filter those? Do I just export 
> all the messages and put them in /var/mail/username and set procmail in 
> action?


You an use formail (comes with procmail) to split the mbox and forward
the mails to procmail:

formail -s procmail <oldmail.mbox


Peter





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