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Re: Two beginner problems - formail and bogofilter



On 11/2/05, Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> * Carthik Sharma <carthik@xxxxxxxxx> [11-02-05 10:51]:
> > Problem 1:
> > I have a 483 MB file from Evolution, called "Inbox". Since I wanted
> > the messages in the file to get filtered to the proper mailboxes so I
> > can read them with Mutt, I used the foloowing command, as suggested
> > somewhere on the web:
>
> Why don't you open the evolution 'Inbox' with mutt and 'save' the
> individual messages to the mutt mailbox of your choice?
>   mutt -f /<path>/<to>/Inbox
>   T   group tag
>   .   tag all messages
>   ;   act on all tagged
>   s   save
>   <mail-box><of><your><choice>

Well, the 550 odd messages have to sorted into 7 different folders,
and this is just the email for 6 months. Once I am done with these, I
have the old mail archive to filter, too. So I was reluctant to do it
manually :)

Thanks,
Carthik.
>
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