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Re: MUA that supports MH-folders?



Jens Grivolla wrote:

> I have been using sylpheed but would like to change because of a few
> small inconveniences (e.g. no freely editable "From:", seemingly
> messed up line wrap in sylpheed claws, ...)
> 
> However, I have been unable to import my Folders into any of the MUAs
> that claim to support MH (such as balsa, tkrat, ...) except exmh.  My
> .mh_profile seems to be ok.
> 
> I googled around, but nobody seems to have any problems.  What am I
> doing wrong?  All I want is to say "start from here and import the
> entire hierarchy".

A simple shell script could use 'find' to get the filenames of all your
stored messages under ~/Mail (or wherever you keep it) and pipe them
through procmail to store them in your new mailboxes in whatever format
you like. That's what I did when I switched from mh to maildir.

Craig



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