[Cialug] Mbox to maildir conversion

David Champion dchampion at visionary.com
Thu Sep 4 15:56:06 CDT 2008


I've done various iterations of this... mbox to maildir, cyrus to 
courier... if you google around you should be able to find the right 
script for your conversion. I usually had to end up doing some minor 
tweaking to the scripts to exactly what I needed.

-dc

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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