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

[NotZed <notzed helixcode com>]

Yeah I think you're right, i'll look at adding that at
some point, its only an hour or 2 work i'd say.

> 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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