How to run mutt on an RMAIL file of messages.
dsa...@zurich.csail.mit.edu
How do you run mutt on an RMAIL file of messages?...
Alan Connor
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> Thank you !
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> How do you run mutt on an RMAIL file of messages?...
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You use UUCP and sendmail?
As near as I can tell from the rmail manpage, you need to run the
rmail file through formail to add a "From ...date" header above
the rmail !header.
Try:
cat rmail_file | formail -d > outputfile
Hopefully, outputfile will be a proper mbox, and you can
name it what you want and mv it to your Mail directory.
If you want them to go to seperate mailboxes, then running
them through formail --> procmail would be the ticket.
It isn't a mutt issue. Mutt only recognizes mboxes with mails
that have the standard From ... Date headers at the top.
When you do need info on mutt, see comp.mail.mutt
AC
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> When you do need info on mutt, see comp.mail.mutt
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:-0 I thought this was comp.mail.misc!
dsa...@zurich.csail.mit.edu
Imagine an Rmail user switching to mutt. In mutt how can the messages
file RMAIL be used that was created previously?
Regrettably, sorting out technical references appear to be an
additional difficult research project itself!... for the less well
versed but enthusiastic potential mutt user. Maybe there's another way
to explain it at an easier level...
Alan Connor
<1119085347....@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
"dsa...@zurich.csail.mit.edu" wrote:
> Thank you Alan Connor!
>
> Imagine an Rmail user switching to mutt. In mutt how can the
> messages file RMAIL be used that was created previously?
>
> Regrettably, sorting out technical references appear to be an
> additional difficult research project itself!... for the less
> well versed but enthusiastic potential mutt user. Maybe there's
> another way to explain it at an easier level...
Huh?
Just post a careful description of an rmail file.
They're just flat file mail digests.
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>|How do you run mutt on an RMAIL file of messages?... You
>|use UUCP and sendmail? As near as I can tell from the rmail
>|manpage, you need to run the rmail file through formail to add
>|a "From ...date" header above the rmail !header. Try: cat
>|rmail_file | formail -d > outputfile Hopefully, outputfile will
>|be a proper mbox, and you can name it what you want and mv it
>|to your Mail directory. If you want them to go to seperate
>|mailboxes, then running them through formail --> procmail would
>|be the ticket. It isn't a mutt issue. Mutt only recognizes
>|mboxes with mails that have the standard From ... Date headers
>|at the top. When you do need info on mutt, see comp.mail.mutt
>
I'm not following you at all.
And I doubt that anyone else is either.
Please put your responses AFTER the material you are responding
to.
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AC
dsa...@zurich.csail.mit.edu
Would any of you folks out there explain what each of
the letters B, A, B, Y, L represent mnemonically
for the acronym?... of the BABYL formatted file RMAIL
Alan Connor
Do you know what this is?
-O OOOOO OOOOOOO OOOOOO OOOO OO OO OOOOOOOOO OO O OOOOO
OOOOO OOOO.
That's your answer, not to the above, but to your original
question, with all of the letters onverted to Os.
How to convert your rmail file into something mutt can deal
with.
You didn't tell me how my original suggestion worked out.
You wouldn't provide information that I requested.
You didn't follow any of the clues I gave you, which would
have resulted in your finding the answer I have obscured
above.
You are history.
If you are what MIT is putting out these days, they
are in sorry shape indeed.
AC
Paul Walker
Why are you asking comp.mail.mutt to explain a file format that mutt doesn't
read...? Try comp.mail.misc or a UUCP group, they might be able to explain
how to convert it into mbox/maildir/mh formats (which mutt does read).
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Paul