Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 10:23:47 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Concatenating 2 or more mbox format files Message-ID: <20021028102347.GA7939@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <100cae0100e3a5.100e3a5100cae0@mbox.com.au> References: <100cae0100e3a5.100e3a5100cae0@mbox.com.au>
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On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 08:49:43PM +1100, BSD Freak wrote:
> Does anyone have a quick and easy way to concatenate two or more MBOX
> format mailbox files? I tried:
>
> cat mboxfile1 mboxfile2 > newfile
That should work just fine. mbox format just concatenates the
individual messages together: the separator is the character sequence
'\n\nFrom ' or in other words, a blank line followed by the envelope
'From ' header (ie. without a colon) -- which is the reason why if you
write:
From at the beginning of a new paragraph in a message it typically
gets a '>' or some other character prepended. Mail delivery agents
and user agents often add some extra headers:
Status: RO
Content-Length: 1463
Lines: 5
right before the blank line that divides the headers from the message
body, but should be able to cope without. Some mail user agents
(Netscape, Mozilla) will create a "dummy" first message in the mbox
file for their own purposes, but 2 seconds with a text editor can fix
that.
What precisely went wrong when you tried to concatenate the mbox files?
Cheers,
Matthew
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