On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 12:21:05PM +1000, Sonam Chauhan wrote:
> I want to seperate messages stored in different mbox-format files into
> distinct files containing one email each, with filenames of the type:
> '20010101-1201-random_number.msg' (for a message sent on 12:01 Jan 1, 2001).
>
> I get the feeling with all these mail manipulation programs out there,
> there is likely to be one that understands a RFC 822 Date: header
> and converts the date to a simpler data structure.
> Q 1.) Can someone suggest such a program ?
Perhaps formail(1)? I'm not really sure, but I *think* it could
probably help with this... anyway, it's part of the procmail package on
debian.
Otherwise, Python has a rfc822 module :)
> I then intend sorting these messages by date (i.e. by filename) and
> feeding them one by one to hypermail (Hypermail requires mbox files
> to be date sorted, otherwise it gets mixed up in date sorting)
> Q 2.) Is there a better approach?
I imagine there probably is, but I'm not sure what it is. And besides,
I use mutt :)
-Andrew.
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