Hi All and thanks Sam for Courier IMAP and Maildrop! I have made a new version 2.01 of the Perl script mb2md. This script is for converting single Mbox mailboxes to Maildirs. It can also convert entire directories of Mbox mailboxes, whilst automatically generating filenames which Courier IMAP interprets in ways which make the new mailboxes appear to the user as if in the same subdirectory arrangements as the old Mbox ones.
http://www.firstpr.com.au/web-mail/mb2md/ The two primary enhancements in the new version are: 1 - The message file's date-time is made the same as the time in its Mbox "From " line. This is typically the time the message was received at the mailserver. While Netscape/Mozilla and other clients ignore this (in both Mbox and Maildir IMAP systems) and sort and display dates based on the "Date: " header which was generated by the sending client, some clients such as Outlook Express evidently rely heavily on the message's "file date". The original mb2md made the file date of messages the same as the time of conversion, but the new version makes them the date-time of their Mbox "From " line. Several people have patched mb2md to set the message file's date-time, but they used the "Date: " header, not the "From " line. 2 - Flags for: Read = Seen Replied Flagged "Tagged for deletion" AKA "Trashed" are found in the Status: and X-Status: headers of each message and written to flags in the filename of each Maildir message - as I think is expected by Courier IMAP and perhaps other IMAP daemons. This is based on the work of Philip Mak who wrote a separate Perl script for Mbox->Maildir on the Mutt mailing list on 25 Dec 2001: http://www.mail-archive.com/mutt-users@mutt.org/msg21872.html The new version relies on GNU "touch" or some other version which can handle the date-time format found in the "From " line in Mbox mailboxes. I did my conversions last year and am not actively using this program. I did a few tests - but there's no way I can anticipate every eventuality. Please let me know of any bugs, well documented enhancements or scripts to drive this script to do mass migrations of users, automatic discovery of subdirectories of Mbox mailboxes etc.. I would particularly appreciate someone with experience with status flags in IMAP looking over the new version. The script is well commented. One thing I would like to know is the "O" status in a header such as Status: RO means - Robin // Robin Whittle http://www.firstpr.com.au // Melbourne, Australia http://fondlyandfirmly.com _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
