Right.  When we were messing around with SFX's sys admin model, I found
archives for both friam and sfx and found that with a fairly small effort
(l1/2 hr say) could convert them between various formats.  This was needed
for an experiment to save the early friam material and to get sfx onto
Nabble.

So yes, given vast amounts of mails, it isn't too difficult to convert them
into other formats.

   -- Owen

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Russell Standish <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:01:21PM -0700, Nicholas  Thompson wrote:
> > Thanks, Owen.
> >
> >
> >
> > I fooled around with the problem a bit more yesterday and immediately
> > encountered a problem I hadn't expected.  It was easy to collect all the
> > emails from one them in one place, but NOT easy to get an email, with
> it's
> > headers, into text.  Apparently in email (unlike in the forums where I
> have
> > tried this before) the headers are kept in a separate file.
> >
>
>
> I don't know what email client you use, but the unix mbox format has
> email with headers all in one file, which can then be processed by
> other tools (eg perl scripts, procmail, ...).
>
> mbox is used by Thunderbird, Seamonkey and a variety of other email
> clients (I personally use mutt).
>
> Cheers
>
> --
>
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