Re: converting files into mbox format

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From: Dan Glover
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 00:00

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In article <19991226155622.A309@netlink.co.uk>, Darren Wyn Rees 
<merlin@netlink.co.uk> wrote:

>i need help in converting some files into a format
>suitable for reading with a mail reader (viz. mutt).

mutt supports several formats: do you have any specific one in mind?

>the files are a collection of news posts from
>an INN news spool... saved without the leading From name@name.com etc...

Presumably you still want them to appear as separate messages in mutt?

>is there any means of doing this fairly automatically ?

The way I'd do it is to *mail* the articles to the appropriate user.
You might want to strip out some of the news headers first, using sed or
whatever.

Dan

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