Subject: Convert mhmail directories/files to pine?

From: [email-masked] (Lynn B Reid)
Date: 14 Jul 1995 16:06:09 GMT

I'm a pine convert and would like to convert my old files as well.
I have been using a standard unix mhmail mailing system, where
the mail files are stored separately in directories.  I would 
like to find a converter that would transform these files into
a single file useable as a pine directory.

The FAQ is strangely quiet on converting from other mail systems.

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 09:23:16 +0100 (BST)

This is a suggestion, not gospel, so it may not work (but I think it 
probably will)...

The Pine and IMAP daemon programs make use of a library of subroutines 
for dealing with access to mailboxes in various formats.  Collectively 
this suite of subroutines is called the "C-Client" code, and is included 
with the Pine distribution kit (after building Pine look in the directory 
pointed to by the symbolic link "c-client" in the main Pine kit directory).

Anyway, the Pine team have provided a set of utilities that use the 
c-client code to convert or copy between different mailbox formats.  
Indeed some of these tools don't even need direct access to the mailbox 
file, but can work over IMAP.

You can get them using anonymous ftp:

	ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap-utils.tar.Z

(Remember to use binary mode when transferring the file!)

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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