From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-03-21T23:18:32+09:00
Subject: Re: E-mail library for Ruby?

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Just Another Victim of the Ambient Morality wrote:

>    Okay, I'll detail my problem and, hopefully, people can suggest a
>    solution to me.  I have an account on a Linux machine that I use as my
>    e-mail address.  I use Pine as my mail client.  I have let my inbox
>    accumulate e-mail for years and there is now too much e-mail queued up
>    for my tastes.  Now, I don't want to delete my e-mail.  Instead, I want
>    archive it to various e-mail folders like how I would have if I used
>    Pine.  I could do this by hand, using Pine, except that there is simply
>    too much e-mail for me to do this in any reasonable time.  So, I think my
>    solution is to automate this sorting using something like Ruby and an
>    appropriate library.  Does anyone know what Ruby library I'm looking for?
>    Thank you...

you are looking for tmail.  let me warn you, however, that it's __very__ easy
to blow away your mail while learning this library - be sure to make a backup
first!

cheers.

-a
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