[ale] digest mode mailing list seperated out?

[Chris Ricker]

On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Steven A DuChene wrote:

> I get digest messages from several mailing lists and I am wondering if
> anyone has ever seen a utility to separate a digest back out into individual
> messages again. I have several digests from a mailing list that is not
> archived anywhere and would like to see about separating the messages back
> out in order to incorporate them into a searchable archive.
> 
> I can't possibly be the first person who has wanted to do this so I don't
> want to have to re-invent the wheel so to speak.

Procmail will do this.  Here's the appropriate part from my .procmailrc for
one of my digest lists:

:0:
* ^From.*owner-linux-kernel
|formail +1 -ds cat >> Linux-Kernel



I get linux-kernel as a digest (to cut down the load on vger).  Procmail
looks for the From header associated with it, then separates it out into
separate messages which it dumps into my Linux-Kernel folder.

later,
chris

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