Short: Converts E-Mail and Articles from Unix to BeOS E-Mail Files. Author: agmsmith@rogers.com (Alexander G. M. Smith) Uploader: "Alexander G. M. Smith" Website: http://members.rogers.com/agmsmith/ Version: 1.9 Type: Internet & Network / E-Mail, Utilities / Command Line & Shell, Utilities / Compression & Archiving Requires: BeOS 5.0+, MDR 2.2.6's libmail.so MailboxFileToBeMail is a utility program that converts Unix mailbox (mbox) files (the kind that Pine uses) into e-mail files for use with BeOS. It also handles news files from rn and trn, which have messages very similar to mail messages but with a different separator line. The input files store multiple mail messages in text format separated by "From ..." lines or "Article ..." lines. The output is a bunch of separate files, each one with one message plus BeOS BFS attributes describing that message. Command line driven. Version 1.7 and up (which have support for international character sets (as requested by "MFC" Zahar from Russia) and the Thread attribute) require the libmail.so that comes with the Mail Daemon Replacement (MDR) version 2.2.6 or later (http://www.bebits.com/app/2289 or http://sourceforge.net/projects/bemaildaemon/). Use version 1.6 (get it from the version history pages on BeBits) if you don't want to install MDR. Usage: MailboxFileToBeMail [-s] InputFile [OutputDirectory] For convenience, all the messages that were from one file are put in the specified output directory (created if it doesn't exist, defaults to the current directory). The -s option makes it leave in the separator text line at the top of each message, the default is to lose it. MailboxFileToBeMail is released to the public domain. You can do whatever you want with it. However, all benefits and loses are yours, not mine. - Alex (Ottawa, December 2003)