Subject: HELP: Convert mbox back to unix

From: "Scott I. Remick" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 01:06:51 -0400

Ok, after a bit of effort, I've converted from Pine 3.96 to 4.04 and got it
set up to my liking.

Except for one casualty: a bunch of messages got converted to mbox format.
I've since fixed it so it won't do it anymore, but I've still got a bunch
of messages in my ~/mbox file that I want to convert back to unix, drop
into /var/mail and fetch with my POP client (Eudora).

So... how do I convert the mbox mail back to "unix" mail, or otherwise get
at these messages?  Please cc: any replies to my email address... thanks!

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From: Tony Warner <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 08:42:18 -0700

If I understand what you're asking, the mbox file is already in the format
you need.
All pine does is copy the users' mail spool directory into his personal
mbox file
for use with pine.  If you copy the mbox file back to the spool directory,
you should 
be able to pop the messages out of there no problem.  I've done this many
times with
no problem.  On my system (Digital Unix 4.0d) , the spool directories are
in /usr/var/spool/mail.
There is one file (exactly like the mbox format) for each user.

Good Luck,
Tony Warner

>at these messages?  Please cc: any replies to my email address... thanks!

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