[ale] Convert mbox to maildir

Chuck Payne terrorpup at gmail.com
Thu Dec 29 16:22:52 EST 2011


Chris,

Sorry for the top posting, but I did this about 7 years ago with a
perl program. I have posted the link that I use. It was very painless.

http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/

Chuck

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> I'm wanting to convert my large imap files into maildir for archival
> purposes.
>
> I have a file with emails from customers.  This file is 300M in size.  I
> found this utility:
>
> http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/
>
> Script complaining that the file is not mbox format.  Possibly
> different?  Mutt can read the file fine.
>
> [root at support 3]# head Customers
> >From cfowler at sam2u.opsup.com  Wed Jun 15 15:17:41 2005
> Return-Path: <lsimonet at digitelusa.net>
> Received: from pop.outpostsentinel.com [207.217.120.138]
>        by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-6.2.5)
>        for cfowler at localhost (single-drop); Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:17:41 -0400
> (EDT)
> Received: from mail.digitelusa.net ([64.105.180.234])
>        by dove.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EarthLink Mail Service) with ESMTP id
> 1dIDng2kt3NZFmi0
>        Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:16:30 -0700 (PDT)
> Received: from LSIMONETLAPTOP [69.15.74.130] by mail.digitelusa.net with
> ESMTP
>
>
> Should I use another utility?
>
>
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