Re: imapmbox vs. mbox

[Bill Whitacre <bw@xxxxxxx>]

OK, I figured it out.  Sorry to waste bandwidth and maillist space.

Maybe what I found will help others ...

Maybe it's 'native' to the Mac, but imapmbox format includes a 
sub-directory called 'CachedMessages' and THIS folder is in a format 
Mhonarc can digest!

So, after copying a local 'imapmbox' to a Desktop folder, I can use the 
following command to archive:

mhonarc -outdir ~/Desktop/irus_test/jamming 
~/Desktop/irus_test/jamming/jamming.imapmbox/CachedMessages

Now to figure out how to automate it [cron] and start banging on the 
some maillists I host!

Oh yea, I also have to figure out how to change the format of output so 
I can see the date of each message -- otherwise you're kind of lost -- 
and how to integrate a search capability!

One step at a time ...

bw

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On Dec 11, 2003, at 1:42 PM, Bill Whitacre wrote:

> I'm using Mail.app to read mail from an IMAP account.  I'd like to 
> figure out how to 'archive' my email in various folders using Mhonarc. 
>  I've got Mhonarc working, thanks to Lasar Liepins 
> <lasar@xxxxxxxxxxx>, but now I'm not able to 'convert' my .imapmbox 
> formatted mail folders!
>
> Does anybody know the difference in mbox and imapmbox?  Is there a way 
> to get them to work with Mhonarc?
>
> Thanks.
>
> bw
>
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> Bill Whitacre
> bw@xxxxxxx

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Bill Whitacre
bw@xxxxxxx