On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Peter Green wrote:
> Hi all! I've searched the ml archive to no avail on this...
>
> I want to convert an existing MHonArc archive from a single directory to
> multiple subdirectories based on month. I understand how to set up the cron
> job to do this for new messages, but I have about three years of archives
> (both MHonArc HTML pages, as well as the original messages) I'd like to do
> this to as well.
>
> Is there a good/fast/easy way of doing this?
>
Good (Platform Independent)
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1. Get your favourite email client to sort all your messages by
date.
2. Select messages based on a date range and save all the selected
messages to a new folder.
3. Repeat step 2.
4. Run MHonArc
Good (works only on UNIX )
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1. Get procmail <http://www.procmail.org/> so as to get
the 'formail' utility.
2. Use 'formail' to sort the messages into folders based on date
of the headers etc...
3. Run MHonArc
> /pg
> --
> Peter Green
> Gospel Communications Network, SysAdmin
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
Others may have better suggestions.
Regards,
AnthonyW
