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Article #266Re: mbox format problem
From: Julian Bradfield
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:09
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:09
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On 2011-02-11, José Manuel García-Patos <jmgarciap@madrid.uned.es> wrote: > I had written a Ruby script that allowed me to import my old emails from Kmail > to VM. Kmail uses one file per mail, while VM (to the best of my > knowledge) uses mbox, so what I did was, quite simply, concatenate all Ugh. VM uses mbox by default, but it doesn't have to. mbox is about the cruddiest most idiotic mailbox format out there, and Unix has a lot to answer for. If you like messages all in one file, I suggest using mmdf format, which is an awful lot easier to deal with. (setq vm-default-folder-type 'mmdf)
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