Off the top of my head, you may want to run the mailbox through formail
which comes with the procmail package. You may also consider writing a
shot perl script which will read in the file and by splitting each
colonless from line decide which file to write the output to.
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Michael Reutlinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a mailinglist archive which has about 3000 mails in the archive at
> the moment.
>
> The system is 486.
>
> Well adding a new message to this list is quite SLOW.
>
> Is there a way (or a tool) to split this thing into each month or
> something like that ...
>
> cause in one month there are about 1500 mails and i think this is ok ...
> :-)
>
> Thanx for any hint / answer ...
> Please send any replay mails directly to this mail account
>
> sc
>
> Michael R. Reutlinger
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