Converting mbox to maildir.

[Morten Liebach]

Hi

I have used procmail to deliver to ~/Mail/* for a long time. There's a
lot of mail in mbox-format that I would like to convert (actually 20
mbox-files, gee!) in one go, like:

$ convert -R ~/Mail ~/Maildir

or something like that.
I couldn't find any programs/scripts for that anywherei, any ideas?
(I've looked at mbox2maildir, but as far as I could tell it didn't work
like that, but I'm not really sure).

Also; someone on this list told me that procmail can do maildirs, and
I've now upgraded to v3.15pre, but can't find any references to maildir
in the docs ($MAILDIR, yes, but not maildir-format), is it really just
to append a '/' to the folders i sort my mail into, remove locking, and
run procmail from ~/.qmail?

Thank you very much for your time.

Regards
Morten

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Re: Converting mbox to maildir.

[Ronny Haryanto]

On 05-Jul-2000, Morten Liebach wrote:
> lot of mail in mbox-format that I would like to convert (actually 20
> mbox-files, gee!) in one go, like:
> 
> $ convert -R ~/Mail ~/Maildir
> 
> or something like that.
> I couldn't find any programs/scripts for that anywherei, any ideas?
> (I've looked at mbox2maildir, but as far as I could tell it didn't work
> like that, but I'm not really sure).

for m in ~/Mail/* ~/Maildir ; do mbox2maildir $m [..whatever..] ; done

> Also; someone on this list told me that procmail can do maildirs, and
> I've now upgraded to v3.15pre, but can't find any references to maildir
> in the docs ($MAILDIR, yes, but not maildir-format), is it really just
> to append a '/' to the folders i sort my mail into, remove locking, and
> run procmail from ~/.qmail?

Yes.

Ronny

Re: Converting mbox to maildir.

[clemensF]

> Morten Liebach:

> I have used procmail to deliver to ~/Mail/* for a long time. There's a
> lot of mail in mbox-format that I would like to convert (actually 20
> mbox-files, gee!) in one go, like:
> 
> $ convert -R ~/Mail ~/Maildir

there's a program called "formail" in the progmail-suit, it'll do what
you want.

clemens