If .news/ is the maildir that you want to convert to the mbox news, this one-liner will do the job for you.
mutt -f .news/ -e 'set confirmcreate=no; set delete=no; push "T.*<enter>;snews<enter><quit>"'
(Gleaned from this mailing list post )
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since Feb 19, 2005.
Nice but does’nt work with cron, it always returns
“No recipients were specified”
Why on EARTH would you try something like this in cron? Good lord…
Why on EARTH would you try something like this in cron? Good lord…
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Great Tip. Thanks!
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