Re: MH -> mbox

[Dave Euser <dave_euser yahoo com>]

Thanks...I found the script about 15 minutes (and a beer) after I sent the
message to the list....sorry about that - got too impatient. I figured out
the same method when I did the conversions....everything works great...

BTW, to all the balsa hackers....great job - things have definitely
progressed since the last I used balsa.....

Dave Euser
dave_euser@yahoo.com


On 2001.01.12 22:12:48 -0500 The Speed of Dark wrote:
> 
> 	Yep, Just did this myself. I used the 'packf' command. The packf
> command should be included
> in your MH or nmh distribution.
> 
> Commentary:
> 	I found that as of Balsa 1.0.0, it kept up with nested MH folders
> OK, but it was slow.
> Additionally, MH uses the .mh_sequences file to track new messages, which
> Balsa doesn't. Finally,
> I found a problem under Balsa that I'd also occasionally had under exmh.
> The sequences would 
> become un-synced and I'd click on a message and the contents wouldn't
> jive
> with the headers.
> I'd have the headers of one message and the contents of another.
> 
> Anyway...
> 
> 	Here is the method that I used:
> 
> 	Note: the ~ convention only works under tcsh, csh and bash. NOT
> sh
> or ksh. If you use
> 	either of these shells, use ${HOME} instead of the ~ .
> 
> 	I kept all the applicable sub-folders but refiled any messages so
> the sub-directories only
> contained the folders (directories) that I wanted to keep and convert to
> mboxes. I reconstructed the
> directory structure that was under the ~/Mail under ~/mail . For example:
> 
> 	~/Mail/Lists/NASA 
> 	~/Mail/Lists/Poli
> 
> 	the 'Lists' subdir contained no messages of its own, just the
> subfolders 'NASA' , 'Poli' and a
> bunch of others. I did a 'mkdir ~/mail/Lists' and then used packf to
> create
> the mbox equivalents. 
> 
> 	packf +Mail/Lists/NASA -file ~/mail/Lists/NASA
> 
> 	This created an mbox called NASA under ~/mail/Lists . I did this
> for every sub folder under
> ~/Mail/Lists. OK, I did it all in half-a-dozen  for-while loops, since I
> had about 250 mailboxes to
> convert. :) 
> 	The important bit is to make sure that the sub-directories (in
> this
> example. ~/Mail/Lists) are 
> just directories under the ~/mail structure. So if there are messages in
> ~/Mail/Lists, they need be 
> refiled into different MH folders before converting. 
> 
> 	So, is that clear? Or have I just made it worse? :)
> 	
> -- 
> 
> Hwyl!
> 
> Fletch
> 
> "I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor. 
> And I'm happy to state that I've finally won out over it."
>                                  --"Elwood P. Dowd" from 'Harvey'
> 
> 
> On 2001.01.12 16:39:40 -0500 Dave Euser wrote:
> 
>   I'm looking to switch back over to balsa (last time I used was <
>   filtering)...seems that currently (in CVS) nested MH folders don't
>   work....if anyone can recommend a solution to this, or even better, a
>   conversion utility (from MH->mbox) - I dug around and found a few old
>   Perl scripts (circa 1996). None seemed to do the job properly......
>   
>   Thanks
>   Dave
>   dave_euser@yahoo.com
>   
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