On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Ben Reser wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:44:56AM -0700, Vincent Danen wrote:
> > On Mon Jan 27, 2003 at 12:57:09PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> > > The big issue is migrating mail which is in mbox files. That's why my
> > > first prodcution mail server *still* runs UW. And unfortunately that
> > > affects all current Maildir server. Would be nice if there were a
> > > mbox2maildir migration IMAP server ;-).
> >
> > IIRC, such a tool comes with qmail.  You can probably download my qmail
> > rpms and extract that one file and use it to do your conversions.
>
> No need to.  Just use formail and procmail.  First take and reconfigure
> procmail to deliver to the maildirs.  Then simply take and do this:
>
> formail -I'From ' -s procmail -d recipient < recipientsmboxfile
>

And this is going to retain:
1)Read/answered flags
2)imap folders
?

To be feasible, I need the users not to notice anything has changed (which
is how our fileserver migration went, and why it was successful).

Buchan

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