[Cialug] Mbox to maildir conversion

Nathan C. Smith nathan.smith at ipmvs.com
Thu Sep 4 16:00:23 CDT 2008


Cool.  I guess I will give one or both of these a try and see what happens/see what I can learn.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org
> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Tom Pohl
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 3:55 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Mbox to maildir conversion
>
> When I converted years ago, I used a script that looked like the one
> named mbox2maildir on this page:
> http://home.uninet.ee/~ragnar/2md/
>
> BUT doing some googling, this script looks pretty good (mb2md) :
> http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/
>
> -Tom
>
> On Sep 4, 2008, at 3:49 PM, 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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