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Re: Why does mutt sees Mailman mailboxes as empty?



Hi,

* Christian Brabandt wrote:

> I have been doing something like this using mutt. For those that 
> understand German I have once documented this approach here:
> http://blog.256bit.org/archives/345-Mutt-als-Mailbox-Konvertierer.html

Regarding that entry: compressed folders support is not in the mainline.

> in short:
> you create a simple muttrc file like this:
[...]
> and then start mutt like this:
> 
> mutt -F muttrc_convert -f mbox_file
> 
> This won't touch your original mbox file only read it and then store 
> your mails in the desired format at ~/mutt_archive as either Maildir, 
> MH, mbox or MMDF depending on your output format.

Two comments: First, mutt does more than is necessary when saving
messages or opening folders, so a formail+procmail combination may be
more suitable. To speed things up a little, you should try to use the -n
switch and see if that speeds things up a little.

Rocco