Moving to Sylpheed from PMMail

[Federico Voges]

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Hi,

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 21:34:21 -0800 (PST), stayler wrote:

>Well it seems the promised Linux version of PMMAil is pretty much a
>piece of Vaporware so I'm looking to transfer some of my old PMMail
>folders to Sylpheed.  

I though that I was the only one using PMMail ;)

>PMMail uses directories and a somewhat strange
>way of tagging msg's as individual files.  I understand that Sylpheed
>is similar but the files are numbered in order.  Is there a simple way
>in BASH to rename the files in a directory with numbers in ascending
>order?  
>

Maybe this helps:

- ---- cut ----
#!/bin/bash

SRC=[put PMMail messages dir pathname here]
DST=[put destination dir here]
C=0
# PMMail uses 1 file per message (named [something].msg)
for f in $SRC/*.[mM][sS][gG]
do
  cp $f $DST/$0
  C=$[ $C + 1 ]
done
- ---- cut ----

It's very simple, but should do the work ;)

Note: I haven't tried this script. Use at your own risk :)

BTW: I've looked at the format used by folder.ini and you can get the
folder name. 

cat folder.ini |awk 'BEGIN {FS="\xde"} {print $1}'

You should be able to do some kind of recursive script to convert your
whole folder tree from PMMail to Sylpheed. I don't use Sylpheed, so I
don't know how it stores the mails/folders.

Federico Voges
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