[lug] Mailbox filtering/extraction software

[Chip Atkinson]

Look up procmail.  It's the mail delivery agent on most if not all red hat
distributions.

Another one is formail. From the formail man pages:
  formail is a filter that can be used to  force  mail  into
       mailbox  format,  perform `From ' escaping, generate auto-
       replying headers, do simple header  munging/extracting  or
       split  up  a mailbox/digest/articles file.  The mail/mail­
       box/article contents will be expected on stdin.

HTH,

Chip

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 rm at fabula.de wrote:

>
> Hello list,
>
> i need to extract all mails from a mailing list out of my mailbox.
> Is there any tool that's easily used for this? I think i can hack
> up a perl thingy pretty fast but would hate to find out that there's
> one of these nice commandline tools hanging arround on my box that's
> meant to do exactly this job ....
>
>  TIA Ralf Mattes
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