[TriLUG] Mailbox - Maildir mess

[Joseph Tate]

Does formail do what you are asking?  At the very least you could use
formail to redeliver all the mail in your spool file.

On 7/31/05, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/31/05, John Broome <jbroome at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/31/05, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I still haven't figured out how to transfer the mail from the mailbox
> > > files to the proper maildirs.  I googled mailbox maildir conversion
> > > and found some scripts which create a new maildir from a mailbox, but
> > > what I want to do is effectively import from the mailbox files into
> > > existing mailbox directory structures.
> >
> >
> > I think mb2md is the package you're looking for.
> 
> Mb2md is what I used way back when I converted from mbox to maildir
> when I was running rh9/sendmail and switched, but it doesn't seem to
> be written to merge a mailbox into a maildir.  It's really written to
> convert FROM mailbox TO maildir format.
> 
> Heres what the doc says: "mb2md does not destroy your valuable email.
> It insists that the output maildir not exist when you start, so you
> know that the output maildir exactly matches the input mbox. More
> importantly, it does not remove the input mbox when finished -- so if
> you decide you don't like what mb2md did, you can fallback to your old
> mbox."
> 
> I suppose I could hack it to do what I want, but I was hoping to find
> something which was already tested.
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