[vox-tech] how to separate e-mail spool file into individual messages?

[Brian Lavender]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 06:13:29PM -0800, Norm Matloff wrote:
> The title says it all.  I want a program x such that I can run something
> like
> 
> $ x /var/mail/mine
> 
> with the result that all the messages in /var/mail/mine get copied to
> individual files in the current directory.
> 
> My guess is that there is an easy answer.  Please let me know.

I did this once and I forget which command I used exactly. Just searched
Google for the following. 
"convert mbox to maildir"

http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/

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