John J Foerch wrote:
Hello,
I am using maildrop with a number of filter rules to sort incoming
email into various mailboxes. It works like a charm for my new email
that I download with fetchmail.
However, I have many old, unsorted mailboxes from before I started
using maildrop. Some of these mailboxes are maildir and some are mbox.
Can anyone recommend a utility with which I can run these old
mailboxes through maildrop in order to sort their contents?
Thank you,
For the mbox files do this:
reformail -s maildrop < mbox_file
This will cause the whole mbox file to be broken into individual
messages that are then (re)processed by your current maildrop
configuration. The reformail program comes with maildrop; see the man page.
For the maildir files, just copy the old maildir directory tree to
somewhere under your new maildir tree. Then you can move messages around
from within your IMAP-capable email client using drag'n'drop.
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