Re: [hypermail] Problems with old mbox

Daniele Frijia wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i have an old mbox file.
> I want the archive splitted into months (and years).
> But hypermail and the scripts contributed in archive/ dont look into
> the mail-date but todays date. So all mails are putted into 2001/Aug .
> Does someone know, how to handle this problem?
> Before writing a script that parse the date and writes the mails I want
> to know if someone has done this before. I dont like reinvent stuff ;-).

Hi Cosmo,

not sure if it's the hypermail[tm] way, but I'd modify the config for the archive for each month that I pipe to the archive, mostly by having monthly mailboxes (mutt for separating e.g.) which are splitted up with formail -ds hypermail -tonsofargs

Regards,

        Joey

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