Sylpheed data storage (was bogofilter satisfaction report)

[Christopher Browne]

On 4/27/05, JoeHill <joehill-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:42:07 -0400
> Sy disseminated the following:
> 
> > > I'll check Google for converting from the Sylpheed file type, but will
> > > Bogofilter work with the way I have things set up currently? ie. all my mail
> > > comes from /var/spool/mail, not ~/mail.
> >
> > Please report back as to what tool you got working, if you choose to
> > convert Sylpheed into another format.. I have old emails I'd
> > eventually like to recover.
> 
> Silly me, it turns out Sylpheed itself can export a folder to mbox format. I
> haven't tried running bogofilter yet, though. I've got about 20 MB of spam now
> in an mbox file, I guess the next step is to put together a collection of
> non-spam, then I'll get started.

Sylpheed presents messages in MH form, where each folder is a
directory, each message is a numbered file in that directory, and,
"breaking" MH compatibility, there is some sort of binary index file
specific to Sylpheed.

You can ignore the binary file and treat the mail using any tools that
know how to manipulate MH mail stores.
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