[sylpheed:37345] Re: how 2 only pure *.eml files?

[Attila Kinali]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:23:39 -0400
k0 at trixtar.org wrote:

> I want all my existing sylpheed email anthill (going back many years)
> converted as well as all future additions to it to consist of nothing
> but in-the-clear .eml files. How is this possible with sylphed? TIA

Sylpheed stores its files in an MH folder structure, with each
email being a separate file. Each of these files, while being only
a number with no filename extension, are nothing more than .eml
files. Or rahter, .eml files are nothing more than the email stored
as raw files and then putting an .eml extension on it, because people
like 8.3 from the good old DOS days.

So, all you have to do is to mass rename the files with
tools like mmv and you are good to go.

			Attila Kinali

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