mailbox question

[Raul A. Gallegos]

I figured it out.  I made a directory called scratch where I put the 
main account directories, raul.act, asmodean.act, etc.  Each of these 
.act directories has subdirectories for each folder, like inbox.fld, 
sent0.fld, trash.fld, etc.  And under each of these subdirectories is 
the list of messages all ending in .MSG along with some folder settings, 
etc.

So the script below starts off at the root scratch dir and goes into 
each directory doing it's magic.

#!/bin/sh

for ACCOUNT in home andy raul0 raul1 shannon ;do
cd $ACCOUNT

for FOLDER in `ls -d *.FLD` ;do
MBOXNAME=`echo "$FOLDER" |cut -d. -f1 |tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`
cd $FOLDER

for msg in `ls *.MSG` ;do
echo "From import-from-pmmail at asmodean.net Thu Oct 24 00:00:00 CDT 2002" > temp-msg
cat $msg |sed 's/.$//' >> temp-msg
cat temp-msg >> $HOME/pink/$MBOXNAME-$ACCOUNT
rm temp-msg
done

cd ../
done

cd ../
done


Raul A. Gallegos said the following on Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 02:00:25PM -0500:
> Hi guys.  I have a lot of messages from pmmail 2000 style which I would 
> like to use from mutt since that is the primary source of my mail 
> management.
> 
> The deal is that pmmail stores each message one file per message with 
> .msg extention.  What I did was wrote a loop script that cats the .msg 
> files into one large mailbox file.  Example:
> 
> for msg in `ls *.MSG` ;do
> cat $msg >> mailbox-temp
> done
> 
> Now I have mailbox-temp which I converted to Unix since it was in dos 
> format.
> 
> When I try to open this from mutt it gives me an error that the mailbox 
> is invalid.  I looked at the mailbox itself and I notice that each new 
> message in mutt starts with the from line and the headers follow.
> 
> With the one I created each one starts with Received:  from
> I'm assuming that the correct format is to have the from be the first 
> line so that it's a standard mailbox.
> 
> I'm trying to use vi to search for a blank line then the word Received:  
> in the body to replace it with the blank line and not the word received 
> so the first part of a new message starts with from as in the working 
> mailboxes I have.
> 
> The keys I pressed to try and get it to do this are:
> 
> esc : s/^$^V^MReceived: 
> 
> but it's not working.  The control-v is so that i can just hit another 
> sequence and the actual control code is put there.  Any suggestions on 
> how I can get rid of the word Received:  but only when it's the firs 
> word after a blank line?
> 
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