[Cialug] Mbox to maildir conversion

Tom Pohl tom at tcpconsulting.com
Thu Sep 4 15:55:20 CDT 2008


When I converted years ago, I used a script that looked like the one  
named mbox2maildir on this page:
http://home.uninet.ee/~ragnar/2md/

BUT doing some googling, this script looks pretty good (mb2md) :
http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/

-Tom

On Sep 4, 2008, at 3:49 PM, Nathan C. Smith wrote:

> I guess I am looking for something that works at the file level.   
> The disk or the installation seems to have bit the dust.  I'm  
> optimistically hoping to be able to recover the mbox files.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Nate
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org
>> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Dave Weis
>> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 3:48 PM
>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Mbox to maildir conversion
>>
>> Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>>> We had a thread about this a couple months ago.  Has
>> anybody done this, and can you recommend a good program or script?
>>>
>>> More specifically, did the person doing it at that time
>> meet with success?  Are there different kinds or version of
>> mbox files or are they pretty consistent?
>>
>> I have used a script in the past that did IMAP copies from one mail
>> server to another that could be used if you don't find anything that
>> works at the file level.
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