Huge mailbox split?
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From: Maxwell Lol on 16 Jun 2010 08:19 >>> @mail = split(/\nFrom /,$mboxfile); > It's easy to shoot yourself in the foot with any language. The above > code assumes that the file is already stored in the variable $mboxfile. > Any language--even $YOUR_FAVORITE_LANGUAGE--can do this. Please don't > spread FUD about something that's possible with any tool. Beyond that, > the above regex will run into problems parsing mailboxes. As I said, this will work if your mailboxes purposely prevent lines starting with "From" to come in umodified. Sendmail has an option to do this, so mailboxes do exist with this characteristic. I use it to convert messages into digest format. However, Chris makes a good point.
From: John Kelly on 16 Jun 2010 08:22 On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:19:25 -0400, Maxwell Lol <nospam(a)com.invalid> wrote: >As I said, this will work if your mailboxes purposely prevent lines >starting with "From" to come in umodified. >Sendmail has an option to do this I would like to know the sendmail option. -- Web mail, POP3, and SMTP http://www.beewyz.com/freeaccounts.php
From: Bill Marcum on 16 Jun 2010 08:13 On 2010-06-16, Tuxedo <tuxedo(a)mailinator.com> wrote: > Chris Nehren wrote: > > [...] > >> Silly mortal, assuming software adheres to standards. Have you watched >> that video yet? :) > > I watched about half of "Email hatest the Living" on Google, entertaining > stuff! I will watch the rest. > > In case of Thunderbird mbox format, the mbox files normally begin with > 'From', at least so it does in other working T-Bird mail files from the > same system where the 2.8GB mail file comes from. It appears that T-Bird is > using some compression format when an mbox file hits a certain size: > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Talk:Thunderbird:2.0_Product_Planning#Auto_compress_folders_after_relative_changes_in_size > > If I only knew which, I could try and uncompress it. > Try the "file" command? > Tuxedo > > -- [It is] best to confuse only one issue at a time. -- K&R
From: Maxwell Lol on 16 Jun 2010 08:37 John Kelly <jak(a)isp2dial.com> writes: > On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 06:26:28 +0000 (UTC), Chris Nehren > <apeiron(a)invalid.isuckatdomains.localhost.net> wrote: > >>> It's easy to shoot yourself in the foot with Perl. > >>It's easy to shoot yourself in the foot with any language. The above >>code assumes that the file is already stored in the variable $mboxfile. >>Any language--even $YOUR_FAVORITE_LANGUAGE--can do this. Please don't >>spread FUD about something that's possible with any tool. > > Sorry, I couldn't resist. But it is "easy" with Perl ;-) It's even easier with "rm" - Better not use that either, :-)
From: Maxwell Lol on 16 Jun 2010 08:39
Tuxedo <tuxedo(a)mailinator.com> writes: > I'm not sure how to do that with vi and emacs. I don't think any editor > will actually open the file. Emacs will open and edit large binary files. |