[ale] mbox tricks

[Jim Popovitch]

On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 00:11 -0400, Pope jonnyX wrote:
> * The easiest method I can think of would be to import your mbox to 
> your preferred email client. Once the index is built, copy all of 
> the messages into another folder. The new mbox built by the email 
> client should be in date-sorted order (based on the Date: header); 
> YMMV depending on your email client's particular quirks.

Well, Evolution doesn't work doing that... even if you only move 1/2 the
emails to a new folder, the mbox order is the same as from the
original.  :-)

Still, thanks anyway

-Jim P.