[comp.unix.questions] Wanted: sort mbox by date

davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) (01/29/88)

In article <1633@rtech.UUCP> daveb@rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes:
| I am looking for something that will read an mbox format file, and produce
| a new file that contains all the messages within sorted by date.
| 
| Does anyone have a good way of doing this?

MUSH (mail user's shell) does this, and other sorts.
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celozzi@tron.UUCP (Dominic J Celozzi) (01/29/88)

In article <9354@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>, davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
> In article <1633@rtech.UUCP> daveb@rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes:
> | I am looking for something that will read an mbox format file, and produce
> | a new file that contains all the messages within sorted by date.
> | 
> | Does anyone have a good way of doing this?
> 
> MUSH (mail user's shell) does this, and other sorts.
> -- 
> 	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)

Bill,
  Under what version of unix does "MUSH" exist?  If it is not standard,
  please consider distributing if it is portable and legally feasible.

				Thanks,
				Dominic J Celozzi
				Westinghouse - Baltimore

davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) (02/10/88)

In article <101@tron.UUCP> celozzi@tron.UUCP (Dominic J Celozzi) writes:
[ ... a question on sorting the mailbox ]

| > MUSH (mail user's shell) does this, and other sorts.
| 
| Bill,
|   Under what version of unix does "MUSH" exist?  If it is not standard,
|   please consider distributing if it is portable and legally feasible.

MUSH has been distributed a number of times on the net. I am using v5.7,
but there are patches for it, and, I believe, v6.0 may be out. I don't
even have the current source on any machine with postnews, so I hope
someone else can mail it to you. I run it with smail.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me