On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 11:29, Rohit Vishal Kumar wrote: > Dear All: > > I faced a peculiar problem at my place of work. A colleauge of mine who > is associated with various academic institutions worldwide uses telnet > and pine for all his email corrospondence. This is possible because at > our place SuSE Linux 7.0 is used at the server level and windows 98 or > above at individual client level. Anyhow, the problem is that the > gentleman has above 400 emails in his pine mailbox and he wants to save > all the mails with their attachments as text files. To illustrate: > > Mail Subject: "Your article to EPW" > with attachments article.doc > > should be saved as "Your article to EPW".dd-mm-yyyy.txt > with atttachment as "Your article to EPW".article.doc > > He approached me for a solution and to be frank i was stumped. Except > for saving each mail by hand using pine commands was the only solution > that i could offer. Anyone knows of any solution? Script, tool, > suggestions etc. all welcome. >
IIRC Pine stores its mail in maildir format. The Python email module handles this quite readily so that its a simple iteration over the mails in the store and extracting the required stuff. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rajarshi Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://jijo.cjb.net> GPG Fingerprint: 0CCA 8EE2 2EEB 25E2 AB04 06F7 1BB9 E634 9B87 56EE ------------------------------------------------------------------- "355/113 -- Not the famous irrational number PI, but an incredible simulation!" -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
