[Cialug] Mbox to maildir conversion

Nathan C. Smith nathan.smith at ipmvs.com
Thu Sep 4 15:58:52 CDT 2008


I'm not sure what the program is - I know it is very old.  Linux 2.2 and from a Cobalt appliance server.  Anybody have a guess?  Cobalt was always sort of Red-hattish.  What did they use for default servers back in the day?

-Nate

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org
> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of David Champion
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 3:56 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Mbox to maildir conversion
>
> 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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