Tim

Use the "other" category for mail import (i.e. File/Import/ 
Other/...). It wants a directory
containing all your Unix style mbox ("From" format) files.  I' ve  
used this to import an
entire year's worth of mailing list drivel.  Don't have too many or  
too large files though,
it wil bomb the Mail.app.  If you do bomb it, just use smaller files/ 
smaller numbers.


On 19-Sep-05, at 7:49 PM, Tim Rowledge wrote:

> I need a sed script (to run on OS/X Tiger) that will take an exported
> email file and convert it to a variant of mbox format that OS/X Mail
> will import.
>
> I didn't know until I tried just how many variations and nit-picky
> hassles there could be for this apparently simple action - export  
> email
> in 'From' format (ie mbox) and import to Mail. Sheesh. What fun.
>
> So far as I can discern I need to export as rmail format in order to
> get an easily searchable message delimiter; the mbox esport seems to
> not get it quite right. Did I say 'what fun' already?
>
> Once I have an rmail file it seems to work if I convert the
> #!rmail 0000000
> lines to
>
>> From foo {some date sort of stuff}
>>
> since everything after the From is ignored except that it has to be
> there or the whole message or even file is ignored!
>
> OS/X has sed sitting there and that seems like a sensible tool for
> converting several umpty-bytes of email rather than trying to use my
> text editor or even some Squeak script. Except that I don't know sed
> and I'll bet somebody out there does and could solve this in a small
> number of seconds.
>
> Help most gratefully received.
>
> tim
> --
> Tim Rowledge, tim at rowledge.org, http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> Useful random insult:- The perfect personality to write software
> manuals.
>