NAME
    mailsort - sort mbox mail folders by date

SYNOPSIS
    mailsort [ -dhLrv ] [ folder... ]

DESCRIPTION
    mailsort sorts mbox format (single file) mail folders by the dates
    in the `From ' lines that separate mail messages in each folder.
    These separators normally look something like:

From person@example.org Wed Dec 16 12:01:45 GMT 1998

    Folders are reordered in increasing date order (with the oldest
    message first), and any leading non-mailbox items are left in place.
    For more information, see the embedded POD documentation.

INSTALLATION
    mailsort is a Perl script and has been tested with Perl version
    5.005 and 5.6.1.  Install it into your usual scripts directory.
    You can also generate the man page in the usual way.

        cp mailsort /usr/local/bin
        pod2man mailsort > /usr/local/man/man1/mailsort.1

    Those using perl 4, please use mailsort-1.24.

AUTHOR
    Copyright 1994-2004 Andras Salamon <andras@dns.net>.

AVAILABILITY
    The latest version of mailsort is available from
        http://www.dns.net/dist/mailsort/
    or via my software page
        http://www.dns.net/andras/software.html
    or via CPAN, at
        http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/A/AZ/AZS/mailsort/
    or
        http://www.cpan.org/scripts/Mail/