Subject: MMDF mailbox/folder format supported?

From: [email-masked] (John Edwards)
Date: 10 Oct 1994 13:07:26 -0500

Hi. We have PINE 3.89 under BSDI BSD/386 1.1. We switched one of our machines
from MMDF mailer to sendmail. When users attempted to access mail, ELM said
folder was 'corrupt' and PINE said that spooled mail is not a folder. 
Once I stripped out the CTRL-A's separating messages in one of the 
mailboxes, it worked OK.

I read in the technical notes that MMDF format is supported. How do I 
access my MMDF mail without having to strip it of control characters?

Thank you for your assistance.				John

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From: Brad <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 22:21:57 +0100 (BST)

> access my MMDF mail without having to strip it of control characters?

	In that case, what you need is the following extremely technical
set of aliases! (In fact, being but a biologist and not a computer
scientist, these took me a fair few hours to perfect, but there we go.)
They convert from MMDF to standard UNIX mail (although you'll have to edit
them to reflect your particular system, obviously. These will only work
for me in particular on my particular system as is. Only a few minor and
very simple changes need to be made, however.) Well, I ramble. Here they
come... 

	--Simon. 

alias maila 'rsh mailhost mv /var/spool/pp/mail-mmdf/syb3 mail/temp1'
alias mailb "tr -d '' < ~syb3/mail/temp1 > ~syb3/mail/temp2"
alias mailc "awk '"'/^Return-Path:/ {print "From [email-masked] Mon Feb 24 00:00:00 1994";a=""} /./ {print a $0;a=""} \\!/./ {a=a "\n"}'"' < ~syb3/mail/temp2 > ~syb3/mail/temp3"
alias maild 'cat ~syb3/mail/temp3 >> ~syb3/mail/inbox'
alias maile 'rm ~syb3/mail/temp*'
alias in 'maila;mailb;mailc;maild;maile;clear'

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From: [email-masked] (Robert Bannocks)
Date: 17 Oct 1994 11:46:44 GMT

John Edwards ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Hi. We have PINE 3.89 under BSDI BSD/386 1.1. We switched one of our machines
: from MMDF mailer to sendmail. When users attempted to access mail, ELM said
: folder was 'corrupt' and PINE said that spooled mail is not a folder. 
: Once I stripped out the CTRL-A's separating messages in one of the 
: mailboxes, it worked OK.

: I read in the technical notes that MMDF format is supported. How do I 
: access my MMDF mail without having to strip it of control characters?

: Thank you for your assistance.				John

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I compiled Pine 3.90 under solaris 2.3 (with BSD compatability package) and 
support for MMDF mailboxes is included by default. Are you using the latest
version of pine ? (3.90) I had not to dissimilar  problems with Pine 3,89
which were solved with 3.90.
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Systems Programmer, Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, Kingston-upon-Thames.

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