splitmbox is a tool to convert an mbox into individual files, one per message.
This can be useful if a given program only accepts maildir formatted emails, but you use a client that uses mbox. Examples are:
- training spamassasin via sa-learn
- importing archives into majordomo or mailman
The directory is named 'splitmail' since it's conceivable that other tools will be written in the future that accomplish similar tasks.
To install the command and manual page somewhere
convenient, run make install; the Makefile defaults
to '/usr/local' but you can change the PREFIX:
$ make PREFIX=~ install
NAME
splitmbox -- split mbox input into individual mail files
SYNOPSIS
splitmbox [-d dir] [-hv] [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
The splitmbox utility splits an mbox-file given on the command-line or
via STDIN into individual mail files. If no output directory is speci-
fied, splitmbox will create the individual mail files in the current
working directory. Each resulting file is named NNNNNN, with leading
zero-padding.
The following options are available:
-d dir If specified, resulting files will be stored in dir. If dir
does not exist, splitmbox will attempt to create it.
-h Show usage and exit.
-v Show version number and exit.
AUTHORS
The splitmbox utility was written by Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeis-
ter.org>.
BUGS
The splitmbox utility can only handle mboxes with lines shorter than 1024
characters.
If an mbox is provided with more than 999,999 messages, then the result-
ing files will not be alphabetically sorted correctly, as filenames for
the next messages are not zero-padded on the left.