Re: sort email by date

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droid  <jshowalter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>I'm looking for a script/program to sort large email files by date.
>I'm asking here because of AWK's reputation for pattern matching, but
>would welcome any script/program that can perform this task on either
>Unix or DOS/Windows.

Depending on how messages are separated in your mailboxes, this might work
for
you:

ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/scripts/mail/from

You would do:

from -f:date -o%M infile > outfile

It isn't the primary purpose of this utility, so it's likely to be slow
and
memory intensive (it will load the entire contents of your mailboxes into
memory while sorting).  But it is at least an example of sorting mailboxes
by
date in awk :)

	John
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