[lug] Mailbox filtering/extraction software

The Matt thompsma at colorado.edu
Fri Mar 26 09:26:45 MST 2004


On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 06:36, 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 ....

Do you want to filter incoming mail (a la procmail) or do you want to
filter on existing mail?  If the latter, what style of mailbox do you
have (mbox, &c.)?

Matt
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