On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Joel Reicher wrote:
I've got a couple mailboxes which I have found have gotten way too big.
(mainly due to me not pruning them by-year) They're unix-format
mailboxes, and I'm basically looking to do the following:
1) Split them down into their component messages.
2) Recombine them into smaller files.
I'd use MH for this job. "inc" will do (1), and you can inc from an
arbitrary file with the -file argument. You can then take groups of
messages from the destination folder and put them in their own folder
with "refile" and a bit of shell programming. Furthermore, you can do
all sorts of fancy things to determine the groupings with "pick", "scan",
and the aforementioned shell programming.
Finally, you can turn each of these folders into a single file with
"packf".
Short of this, is there another format that pine can work with that can
handle the larger file sizes that I can convert to with Mailutil? (I would
like to use pine as I'm used to those aggregate sorting functions)
Doesn't pine support everything c-client does? And since mailutil is
built on c-client...
But I don't know if c-client supports maildir out of the box. I've seen
patches for it, but they seem kinda...sketchy.
I'm slowly investigating the use of alternative (non-mbox) file formats
system-wide, but support for them is sketchy unless I want to stay
"married" to c-client. MBX seems to have issues with NFS. Maildir is
just disgusting to me (other than as a reformatting tool in this case).
MIX, I hear good things about.
I can't find a real good primer on the
advantages/disadvantages/compatibilites of the various formats. Anyone
know of one?
I'm just really afraid of "breaking stuff".
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