[GRLUG] Splitting mbox file

[Grand Rapids Linux Users Group]

On March 20, 2024 3:50:11 PM EDT, Grand Rapids Linux Users Group <grlug at grlug.org> wrote:
>Have a large mbox file with eight years of email, and it would make a lot
>more sense to have separate years.
>Have only found one tool online, but it's windoze only (of course).
>Anyone seen a way to split it without spending an hour in Vim/EMACS?


Doing that split into separate MBOX files is a trivial process using Python's email module.  I sling messages around all the time, it works flawlessly.