Handling mail folders

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Friday 05 September 2003 11:56 am, R Ransbottom wrote:
> I expect my email needs to increase in the near future -- quantity
> and reliability.  For the years I've been on the net most of my
> correspondence has been of the nature of this email.
>
> So I'd like to clean up my email collection[s].  I have various
> mail files saved from various incarnations of a few hosts going
> back to an early Compaq luggable.
>
> Are there any good tools to consolidate mail into one set?
>
> I'd like to forward selected mail to my primary mail address and
> play more tricks with my mail filtering/sorting.
> I am slightly familiar with procmail, should I be looking at
> something newer?

Use fetchmail to get all your mail in one place.

Then you can use something like this:
http://www.shelldorado.com/scripts/quickies/mailgrep
to categorize your mail and shove it in different files/folders.
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