Re: [Dovecot] Cyrus MailDir to Dovecot mbox

[Timo Sirainen]

On Oct 7, 2008, at 6:04 PM, CJ Keist wrote:

Anyone out there know of a tool that can convert a Cyrus MailDir format

to Dovecot mbox?  I have a user that I need to move over from a mail

second account with Thunderbird to our mail server and then use

not as easy to do.

to simply cat all the messages into a single file, but just got a "Not
valid mbox format" when I tried to read the mail folder.

server running cyrus using MailDir format. At first I told him to setup Thunderbird to move the messages over. But he has over 100K messages so Is there a tool out there for doing this sort of conversion? I tried

You could use either cyrus2dovecot or cyrus2courier tools to convert to Maildir format (http://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/Cyrus). From there use some maildir to mbox conversion tool (e.g. Dovecot's convert- tool).

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