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

[Brian Lavender]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 12:16:35AM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote:
> 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/

I think I did use mb2md. It worked pretty well. You can install it from
Debian

apt-get install mb2md

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Brian Lavender
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