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From: bhoule@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Bill Houle)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Making a newsgroup into a folder
Keywords: folder newsgroup extract elm vnews
Message-ID: <4351@se-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: 29 Jan 91 03:17:39 GMT
References: <339@schoenfinkel.CS.UWindsor.Ca> <1398@vision.UUCP>
Organization: NCR Corporation, Systems Engineering - San Diego
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In article <339@schoenfinkel.CS.UWindsor.Ca> wisdom@CS.UWindsor.Ca (CSS Newsletter) writes:
>All I really want to be able to do (for example) is:
>  cd /usr/spool/news/comp/mail/elm
>  cat * >~/Mail/cm-elm
>  elm -f =cm-elm
>And read Usenet groups THAT way! [...]

In <1398@vision.UUCP> chris@vision.UUCP (Chris Davies) writes:
>I would consider piping each message into rmail (/bin/rmail on this SysV.3
>machine).  You would then need some way of persuading mail to drop such
>messages into your required folder.

Or something like the following could be done:

	for f in *
	do
	  news-to-mail $f ~/Mail/cm-elm
	done

where 'news-to-mail' is a script like so:

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# $1 == news article
	# $2 == mail folder
	#
	ex - $1 >/dev/null << E*O*F
	/^Date:
	ya
	?^Path:
	pu
	-
	j
	g/^Path:/s/Date: //g
	g/^Path:/s//From/g
	w! >> $2
	q
	E*O*F

The only reason to do it this way would be if rmail is a hog as
compared to ex or sed or whatever header mangler is used.

Note that the date will come out screwy under Elm; this is because
the Date header in news is "day month yr" and mail uses "dow month
day year".  Small price to pay.

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