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| DATE | 2003-05-22 |
| FROM | Marco Scoffier
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [hangout] mbox_splitter.py
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Well this is the first time I have done this, and I am a little wary
about the scrutiny of wide usage. But, I wrote a small script for my
own usage that I think might be useful for many of you.
mbox_splitter.py :
splits the mailboxes it recieves as arguements into user defined sizes
(say -S=300000 bytes or about 3M).
It also strips out the attachments which are larger than a certain
size and saves them to a seperate file.
It also saves only a specific set of headers, so you keep only the imporant
ones if you wish (this can reduce the size of an mbox by 20-50%).
Basically I have procmail sort my incoming mails into
several mboxes. Because I am on so many lists these mboxes tend to get
really large, to the point where it is tough to even open them. So,
wrote this script which I run in a batch:
mbox_splitter.py ~/Mail/*
To download the code and view some examples which include the output of
parsing the 19M of hangout we have received since Feb 12th. please
visit:
http://marco.metm.org/code/
Oh and it's python so it is pretty slow.
--
Marco
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