Re: Best way of merging mbox files

2018-11-29 Thread Joseph Tam
On Thu, 29 Nov 2018, Ruben Safir wrote: aside from cat? "cat" is fine if you're OK to have all your message in block sorted (as opposed to globally) sorted order. I think I made that plain in my writeup. Most mail readers will sort by the order in which it appears in the mailbox. If you wan

Re: Best way of merging mbox files

2018-11-29 Thread Ruben Safir
aside from cat? On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 03:07:58PM -0800, Joseph Tam wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2018, Marc Roos wrote: > > >When concatenating mbox files like described here > >https://xaizek.github.io/2013-03-30/merge-mbox-mailboxes/. You will end > >up with an 'unsorted' mbox file. Is this goin

Re: Best way of merging mbox files

2018-11-29 Thread Joseph Tam
On Thu, 29 Nov 2018, Marc Roos wrote: When concatenating mbox files like described here https://xaizek.github.io/2013-03-30/merge-mbox-mailboxes/. You will end up with an 'unsorted' mbox file. Is this going to be a problem esspecially when they are large >2GB's and new emails will be written to

Best way of merging mbox files

2018-11-29 Thread Marc Roos
When concatenating mbox files like described here https://xaizek.github.io/2013-03-30/merge-mbox-mailboxes/. You will end up with an 'unsorted' mbox file. Is this going to be a problem esspecially when they are large >2GB's and new emails will be written to it? The email client nicely sorts t