Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!bloom-beacon!well.sf.ca.us!dv From: dv@well.sf.ca.us (David W. Vezie) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush Subject: Re: using folders with other formats Message-ID: <8908180042.AA05056@well.UUCP> Date: 18 Aug 89 00:42:09 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 50 (Dan and Bart, if I goof up here, let me know, but I'm taking your suggestion of other people piping in with answers, so it isn't just you two) > Can mush be configured to handle folders with the following > headers? > > Return-Path: @bloom-beacon.mit.edu:xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu > Received: ... > Received: ... > Date: 19 Jun 89 12:19:48 GMT > From: Colas NAHABOO> Organization: Koala Project -- BULL/INRIA > Subject: GWM Announcement > Message-Id: <189@mirsa.inria.fr> > Sender: xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu > To: xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu Mush by default looks for a line, after a blank line, that begins with "From ". If it doesn't see any such lines, then it won't find any messages (treat everything as "garbage before the first line"). I take it from your message that there is no such line in the file. Is there some recognizable pattern that begins each message? You can either use some program to add a From_ line in front of each pattern, or you can set mush to use that pattern as the message separator (via MSG_SEPARATOR in config.h). Here's a little sed script that I think would work for you: sed 's/^\(Return-Path: \)\(.*\)/From \2 Thu Aug 17 17:55:54 1989\ \1\2/' < mail.gwm > mush.gwm Keep in mind that the date part of the From line isn't used in mush when a Date: field exists. This also assumes that all headers begin with Return-Path. > -- > --- duane voth duanev@mcc.com > ---- ALL systems are arbitrary! > --- effectiveness is the measure of Truth > -- -- Name: David W. Vezie | Company: Lucasfilm Ltd UUCP: {apple|pacbell}!well!dv | Last-name-pronounced: "VEE-zee" Internet: dv@well.sf.ca.us | Phone: +1 415 662 1222 Best_Picture: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (what else!!)