Convert 'store'd emails mbox format

Martin Hepworth martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM
Fri Jul 1 17:55:28 IST 2005


oops did I say rfc 862, of course I meant rfc822 - it been a long week....

Anyway look like the store function ain't putting the "From: " line in 
the email. Is this a bug????

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Martin Hepworth wrote:
> All
> I've got lots of emails on my server that are in the 
> quarantine/<date>nonspam directories. These seem to in some odd format - 
> they ain't rfc 862 format as they start with...
> 
> Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk ([195.112.4.54])
>         by towers.solid-state-logic.com with esmtp (Exim (FreeBSD))
>         id 1DoKty-00015S-4n
>         for someusers at solid-state-logic.com; Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:45:50 +010
> 
> 
> BUT (there's always a but aint there ;-) I need to get these into rfc862 
> format so I can cat them together in one big mbox file and pop them into 
> Thunderbird (or whatever) so I can look at them as if I has recieved 
> them myself.
> 
> Any ideas of perl/shell/.. wizardry that would do this???
> 
> -- 
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
> 
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