One liner to convert Maildir/ to mbox using mutt

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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Nice but does’nt work with cron, it always returns
“No recipients were specified”
http://oszwdupe.mybrute.com t

Nice but does’nt work with cron, it always returns
“No recipients were specified”
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Why on EARTH would you try something like this in cron? Good lord…
http://www.apes.com/ koitsu

Why on EARTH would you try something like this in cron? Good lord…
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Great Tip. Thanks!

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