Re: [Evolution] Evolution mailbox format - converting from ...

[Michael Wood <wood kingsley co za>]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 11:52:23AM +1200, Guy Steven wrote:
[snip]
> format. Is the new format some standard format, and is there a
> utility to convert it back so that I can use pine to access
> those messages which were still in my inbox?

This seems to work:

sed -e 's/^From - $/From foo bar  Wed Jul 19 08:52:14 2000/' \
~/evolution/local/Inbox/mbox | formail -I 'From ' -s formail \
> newmbox

Or if you don't mind all the "From " lines containing junk, just
do the sed part :)

By the way, would it be possible for Evolution to generate
"^From " lines of the form "From user host  `date`"?  Even if
"From - " is valid, pine, elm, mutt, formail etc. don't think
it is.  It would be nice to interoperate better with other
MUA's.

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