On 09:03 Fri 06 Mar , Paul E Condon wrote:
> I find myself in possession of an email folder in which there are
> close to a thousand emails. These emails are from many different
> senders. I want to create folders according to sender email address
> just as would happen if I were to press 's' on each email
> individually. But when I press 's' I get two prompts that I need to
> respond to before Mutt actually saves the email into the folder that
> it has suggested. This is tedious.
>
> But if I tag the whole lot and do ';' and 's', all the emails
> go to a single folder, based on the sender of ONE of the emails.
> This is OK for solving some other problem, but not the problem
> that I have now.
>
> Is there some way of automating what happens when I type
> 's','\n','\n' over and over again?
>
> FYI, it may make a difference: I am using a maildir format repository
> for the folders, with no subfolders, either real or apparent.
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Paul E Condon
> pecon...@mesanetworks.net
>
If you really wanted to automate it to the extent of being sorted into separate
folders even before reading it, I would suggest using Procmail to file them.
For mails already in an mbox I use a script like the following (which is
based on procmail being in place with rules for sorting incoming mail into
folders).
Raj
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#!/bin/sh
ORGMAIL=/var/mail/$LOGNAME
if cd $HOME &&
test -s $ORGMAIL &&
lockfile -r0 -l1024 .newmail.lock 2>/dev/null
then
trap "rm -f .newmail.lock" 1 2 3 13 15
umask 077
lockfile -l1024 -ml
cat $ORGMAIL >>.newmail &&
cat /dev/null >$ORGMAIL
lockfile -mu
formail -s procmail <.newmail &&
rm -f .newmail
rm -f .newmail.lock
fi
exit 0
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# Rajarajan Rajamani : r.rajam...@gmail.com : r.rajam...@verizon.net
