WHAT IS THIS?
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* man safecat

SCENARIO/POSSIBLE USAGE
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* mbox2maildir converter

I tried to import plain mbox files to the Maildir style using kmail kmailcvt
from KDE 3.2.3 but it choked on me..., so I had to find something rock solid.

safecat + procmail was the answer, not anyone of those magic perl scripts
that just didn't work, I tried them all.

This is basically how I did to "import" the asterisk-dev mailinglists after 
reading and interesting onliner here:

http://www.pobox.com/~lbudney/linux/software/safecat/one-liners.html


-------- [ rough shell code snippet, begin ] ------------
#!/bin/sh
cd /to/where/you/want/it

wget `lynx -dump http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/ | grep gz | awk '{ print $2}'`
gunzip *.gz

for i in *.txt; do
    d_name=`echo $i| sed 's/\.txt//'`
    maildirmake++ .softwares.asterisk-dev.${d_name}
    formail -I'From ' -s maildir .softwares.asterisk-dev.${d_name} < ${i}
    chown -R vpopmail:vchkpw .softwares.asterisk-dev.${d_name}
    # subscribe too?
    #echo ".softwares.asterisk-dev.${d_name}" >> courierimapsubscribed
    rm -f $i
done

-------- [ rough shell code snippet, end ] ------------

(I use vpopmail...)

Regards // Oden Eriksson