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