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From: marvit%hplpm@HPLABS.HP.COM (Peter Marvit)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Migrating MH folders to elm mailboxes ?
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Date: 7 Jan 88 00:27:04 GMT
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Dave's response is mostly correct (since he's the author of Elm.  Hi, Dave.),
although you need a bit more processing than simply a "cat".  Elm (and mailx)
looks for the 'From ' delimiter (or for mailx, '\nFrom') which MH strips.

To get an MH folder into a state readable by elm (with a *very* simplistic csh
script, try the following (spaces are important):

	cd ~/Mail/inbox     #or whatever folder
	foreach msg ( `ls [1-9]*` )
	cat "From null Wed Jan  6 00:00 PST 1988" >> /tmp/elm-msgs
	cat $msg >> /tmp/elm-msgs
	end
	elm -f /tmp/elm-msgs
	
Of course, if you wanted to permanently convert from MH to Elm, you'd probably
want to massage the messages to get a better "From " line.

I leave it to the philosophers as to which is better, MH or Elm.

-Peter "MH=Mail Heaven, Elm=Extremely Lovable Mailer" Marvit
 HP Labs