On 06/14/2016 12:36 AM, John Poltorak wrote: > I have managed to obtain all the msgs as individual files. I'm not sure > of the mbox format, but hopefully I can create it... Isn't it just a > concatenation of all the individual files as a single file? There's > probably more to it, but hopefully it is doable without too much difficulty.
A .mbox is not quite the concatenation of the individual messages. I have attached an excerpt of a .mbox file with two messages. The key is that the first line of each message is a 'From_' separator that looks like 'From email@address date' It begins literally with 'From ' and no other lines in the mbox begin with these 5 characters - this is why you sometimes see lines in the body of an email that begin 'From ' escaped by inserting '>' as in '>From '. For the purposes of bin/arch, the actual contents after the leading 'From ' are not important, but in general, there should be an email address representing the envelope sender of the message and a date in the format of the example. See, e.g., <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox>. -- Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
From [email protected] Wed Jun 19 14:35:45 2013 Return-Path: <[email protected]> X-Original-To: [email protected] Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: by msapiro.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 918F54C0E07; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:35:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:35:45 -0700 From: Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Subject: [List1] Test 3 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: <list1.msapiro.net> List-Unsubscribe: <http://msapiro.net/mailman/options/list1>, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://msapiro.net/pipermail/list1/> List-Post: <mailto:[email protected]> List-Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://msapiro.net/mailman/listinfo/list1>, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:35:45 -0000 Wow -- Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan From [email protected] Wed Jun 19 14:36:25 2013 Return-Path: <[email protected]> X-Original-To: [email protected] Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: by msapiro.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D095C4C0E07; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:36:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:36:25 -0700 From: Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Subject: [List1] Test4 X-BeenThere: [email protected] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: <list1.msapiro.net> List-Unsubscribe: <http://msapiro.net/mailman/options/list1>, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://msapiro.net/pipermail/list1/> List-Post: <mailto:[email protected]> List-Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://msapiro.net/mailman/listinfo/list1>, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:36:25 -0000 abcdef -- Mark Sapiro <[email protected]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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