Mike -- ...and then Mike Arrison said... % % Hello Mutters,
Hello! % I run mutt in a few different locations. I've gathered a few % different sent-mail mbox files that I'd like to combine into one. Would % cat'ing one onto another do it? Is mutt smart enough to still sort % them? Sure. The important bits in an mbox file are the ^From_ line (that's the common notation for a beginning-of-line and "From" and then a space, and it's importantly different from "^From:"). Since you have a ^From_ line for every message (and we can say that because your mbox files currently work), a simple cat mb1 mb2 mb3 > mboxall will maintain that structure. There's really nothing different except the number of messages in the resultant file -- and one thing you'll find about mutt, if you haven't already, is that very, very large numbers are no problem :-) You will note that the existing mbox files probably aren't really sorted like you see them, anyway; you can view the messages in unsorted order by going to the index and hitting 'o' (for s'o'rt) and then 'u'. It's no different in the big result mbox. % % -Mike Arrison HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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