use Perl

• formail (Score:1)

  by duff (16)

  From the man page for formail:
  
DESCRIPTION
              formail is a filter that can be used to force mail into mailbox format,
              perform ‘From ’ escaping, generate auto-replying headers, do simple
              header munging/extracting or split up a mailbox/digest/articles file.
              The mail/mailbox/article contents will be expe
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by Purdy (2383)

    Thanks ... it looks like it could do the trick, but upon closer examination, formail will split it into separate messages, but not chunked mbox files of a specified size. 6700 individual message files vs. 25 mbox files.
    
    - Jason
• Last mail not saved (Score:1)

  by elysch (9482)

  Hi. I discovered the script stores mails every time it encounters a mail beginning (^From ). So, the last e-mail is not stored since there is no "NEXT" mail. I fixed moving:

          if ( length( $message ) > 0 ) {
                  $message_count++;
                  $file = $file_base . sprintf( "%02d", $file_i );
                  #print "Got message # $message_count - a