Re: mbox script
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 06:00:23PM +0100 I heard the voice of
Christoph Berg, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> The mbox format is really simple: each mail starts with "From " at the
> beginning of a line (this means that you have to quote (like here) each
> From that occurs there.)
The difficulty is that it isn't always that easy; for instance, mbox's
that use the Content-Length: headers in the email will often not
escape From_'s in the messages. I went through several iterations of
some rather ugly mbox parsing code before I eventually got something
that seems to work reliably.
> Or just use Mutt and press 'd' ;-)
That, or something like it [using an existing program that already
groks mbox] is probably the easiest. Sure, mutt isn't really
_DESIGNED_ to be a non-interactive app, but pushing commands into it
on the command line can do some impressive things. 8-}
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