On Sun, 1 Jun 2025 22:36:06 +0000 "dbarr...@blazemonger.com" wrote:
> What's the best way to import 600 mbox files to an IMAP server? The most consistent and reliable, albeit slow, method is to connect your email client to both servers/backends and copy messages. You might need to chunk up the copies depending on how much mail you're trying to queue up. A faster but more complex method is to reprocess mbox files with formail (a procmail tool) to redeliver to the target server, something like cat mail.mbox | formail -s /usr/sbin/sendmail m...@fastmail.com -s tells formail to split the mbox file into individual messages. I'm sure there are ways to use IMAP instead of SMTP here. You may be able to convert the mbox files to proper Maildir directories and use a sync tool with those. I've never tried this so I don't know the steps. "ad...@bclug.ca" wrote > Side note, Thunderbird supports MailDir storage locally (each message > is its own file instead of each folder being a large file with many > messages). It's not actually Maildir. It's more like MH with a Maildir-like directory structure. -- \m/ (--) \m/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
