[vox-tech] pine archive question

Jeff Newmiller vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Sun, 24 Feb 2002 01:09:30 -0800 (PST)


On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Alexandra Thorn wrote:

> 
> I suspect that it is not possible ("help" wasn't very helpful, anyway),
> but I was wondering if anybody knows any tricks for archiving old e-mail
> messages in pine to ASCII files in a  more efficient manner than exporting
> them individually?

"Saving" to a "folder" amounts to putting emails into text files in your
"~/mail" directory.

Otherwise, as Mark said, there is the "From " header (as opposed to the
"From:" header) and coding in your languange of choice.

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