Re: Ugh! Ack! Argh! Nggh!

[Michael Cook <cook@sightpath.com>]

Hans de Graaff <graaff@xs4all.nl> writes:

> Jonas Steverud <d4jonas@dtek.chalmers.se> writes:
> 
> > > Also, one question: What's a quick way to take an nnml folder and
> > > convert it to an mbox-compliant file so that I can reprocess it with
> > > procmail?  Or even a slow way?
> > 
> > % cat nnml-folder-dir/* > mboxfile
> > Or have I missed something vital?
> 
> Yes, nnml messages don't contain a From_ line at the start, but an
> mbox style file would need those. Your solution would create a file
> with one very large message in it.

I think gnus automatically detects if the mbox file is using MMDF
format.

$ cd nnml-folder-dir
$ for i in $(ls|sort -n);do echo -e '\1\1\1\1';cat $i;done>../mboxfile

Of course, that assumes that none of your messages already contains
four ^A characters alone on a line.

M.