Converting mbox to Maildir

2002-03-20 Thread Tyrin R. Price
Are any tools or guidance available for converting mailboxes from mbox to Maildir?

Re: Converting mbox to Maildir

2002-03-20 Thread Christopher Swingley
Tyrin, * Tyrin R. Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-Mar-20 08:38 AKST]: Are any tools or guidance available for converting mailboxes from mbox to Maildir? Use mutt. Tag all the mbox messages (T.*), tag-save (;s=new_maildir) to the maildir mailbox. I think you need to create the maildir

Re: Converting mbox to Maildir

2002-03-20 Thread Magnus Bodin
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:38:42AM -0800, Tyrin R. Price wrote: Are any tools or guidance available for converting mailboxes from mbox to Maildir? Mutt will do. 1. Create a maildir. 2. Open the mbox in mutt. 3. Tag all, save to Maildir. or if you want to batch it;

Re: Converting mbox to Maildir

2002-03-20 Thread John Poltorak
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:38:42AM -0800, Tyrin R. Price wrote: Are any tools or guidance available for converting mailboxes from mbox to Maildir? Can someone describe the mbox and Maildir formats for me? Is mbox the same as Unix format? -- John

Re: Converting mbox to Maildir

2002-03-20 Thread David T-G
Chris -- ...and then Christopher Swingley said... % % * Tyrin R. Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-Mar-20 08:38 AKST]: ... % from mbox to Maildir? % % Use mutt. Tag all the mbox messages (T.*), tag-save (;s=new_maildir) Always good to use what's handy :-) % to the maildir mailbox. I think

Re: Converting mbox to Maildir

2002-03-20 Thread David T-G
John -- ...and then John Poltorak said... % % On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:38:42AM -0800, Tyrin R. Price wrote: % Are any tools or guidance available for converting mailboxes % from mbox to Maildir? % % Can someone describe the mbox and Maildir formats for me? Yes. *wink* % % Is mbox the

Re: Converting mbox to Maildir

2002-03-20 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin quoting what David T-G said on Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 01:08:56PM -0500: % Is mbox the same as Unix format? Yes, mbox is the same mailbox format that you know from years and years ago. Each message is delimited by ^From_ (a newline, From, and a Well, technically, I don't think UNIX

Re: Converting mbox to Maildir

2002-03-20 Thread Tyrin R. Price
Quoting Christopher Swingley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Use mutt. Tag all the mbox messages (T.*), tag-save (;s=new_maildir) to the maildir mailbox. I think you need to create the maildir directory first, with the requisite tmp/ cur/ and new/ directories underneath. Thanks, Chris. I am using exim,

Re: Converting mbox to Maildir

2002-03-20 Thread David Collantes
On 03-20-2002 at 13:02 EST, Shawn McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *SENDMAIL* has a mail format, and it's mbox. Other common UNIX utilities recognize this format, but UNIX itself doesn't do mail. Local Delivery Agent handles that. Sendmail does not have a mail format. I run Sendmail and use

Re: Converting mbox to Maildir

2002-03-20 Thread Dan Boger
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 01:21:08PM -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote: begin quoting what David T-G said on Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 01:08:56PM -0500: % Is mbox the same as Unix format? Yes, mbox is the same mailbox format that you know from years and years ago. Each message is delimited by

Re: Converting mbox to Maildir

2002-03-20 Thread Aaron Schrab
At 13:08 -0500 20 Mar 2002, David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are also MMDF and MH folders, and they are of the one-file-per variety but don't have the tmp, new, and cur subdirs of Maildir. True for MH, but not MMDF. MMDF has all the messages in one file, like mbox, but uses

Re: Converting mbox to Maildir

2002-03-20 Thread David T-G
Aaron, et al -- ...and then Aaron Schrab said... % % At 13:08 -0500 20 Mar 2002, David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: % There are also MMDF and MH folders, and they are of the one-file-per % variety but don't have the tmp, new, and cur subdirs of Maildir. % % True for MH, but not MMDF. MMDF

Re: Converting mbox to Maildir

2002-03-20 Thread John Poltorak
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 01:21:08PM -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote: begin quoting what David T-G said on Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 01:08:56PM -0500: % Is mbox the same as Unix format? Yes, mbox is the same mailbox format that you know from years and years ago. Each message is delimited by

Re: Converting mbox to Maildir

2002-03-20 Thread Gerhard Hring
Le 20/03/02 à 17:57, John Poltorak écrivit: On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 09:38:42AM -0800, Tyrin R. Price wrote: Are any tools or guidance available for converting mailboxes from mbox to Maildir? Can someone describe the mbox and Maildir formats for me? I'm too tired to describe it myself

Re: Converting mbox to Maildir

2002-03-20 Thread Andre Berger
* Tyrin R. Price [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2002-03-20 18:38 -0500: I am using exim, fetchmail (running a global rc file in daemon mode), and procmail. From what I've read online I can remove the trailing : (for file locking) and just add a / to the destination in my procmail recipe to deliver