chopping up mbox

Jonathan Stowe jns at gellyfish.com
Mon Oct 29 09:30:11 PDT 2007


On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 16:07 +0000, Tom Hukins wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:36:34PM +0000, Michael Lush wrote:
> > I've about 10Gb of mailboxes,  I'd like to break down into individual
> > emails so I can dump them into a simple searchable table.
> 
> ...
> 
> > Are ther any other packages I should consider?
> 
> The Perl Email Project attempts to replace the old-style Mail::*
> modules with newer, more flexible Email::* modules:
> http://emailproject.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Perl_Email_Project
> 
> For this particular problem, take a look at Email::Folder::Mbox.

I'll vouch for it as I recently moved all my mail (for the last five
years or so) from mbox to maildir using the aforementioned module and it
worked nicely. 

/J\


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