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From: chaffee@reed.UUCP (Alex Chaffee)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: elm folder --> mh folder --> elm folder
Message-ID: <16210@reed.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 91 19:53:19 GMT
References: <1991Mar8.140403.17710@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU>
Reply-To: chaffee@reed.UUCP (Alex Chaffee)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In <1991Mar8.140403.17710@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU> ramsey@NPIRS.Purdue.EDU (Ed Ramsey) writes:

>I support the use of elm for our users, but use mh myself, except
>when testing a new release of elm or a patch.  When I test elm I
>end up eventually needing to convert an elm folder to mh format
>for long-term archiving, and I was wondering if
>anyone has written scripts to convert elm folders into
>individual files suitable for mh, and for converting mh files into
>folders suitable for elm?

Here's 1/2: mh2elm


#! /bin/sh
X="`date | sed -e 's/^... //'`"
F=$HOME/Mail
cd $HOME/Mail
for D in ${1-*} ; do
    if [ ! -d ${D} ] ; then
	echo Skipping ${D} -- not a directory
	continue
    fi
    mv ${D} mh.$D
    cd mh.$D
    for I in `ls | grep -v '[^0-9]' | sort -n` ; do
	 T=`grep '^Date:' <${I} | head -1`
	 Z=`echo $T | sed -e 's/Date:[^,]*, //' -e 's/Date: //'`
#	 echo $I Date is @"$Z"@ >&2
	 if [ -z "${Z}" ] ; then
	     Z="${X}"
	 fi
	 echo ""
	 grep -v '^Replied:' <$I | \
	 sed -e "/Return-Path:/s=\$= ${Z}=" -e "/Return-Path:/s//From /"
    done >${F}/${D}
    cd ..
done


-- 
Alex Chaffee
chaffee@reed.bitnet
Reed College, Portland OR 97202
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