On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Fred Seaton wrote:
Is there a way to copy a mailbox from one format to another (i.e., mbox to mix) while retaining the original UID numbers? One downside we've seen with converting a mailbox format is that clients have to download a fresh copy of the mail headers, which on a large mailbox, can be time consuming.
That is what the mixcvt program does. mailutil is a general tool and is less than fully satisfactory for the purpose of converting to mix format. mixcvt is a special purpose tool designed to make a well-formed mix mailbox from the source mailbox.
Besides preserving the UID regime, mixcvt also splits the message store into multiple ~1MB data files, whereas mailutil will make a single gigantic mix data file.
Last, but not least, mixcvt can take mix files as its input; this is useful if you want to consolidate tiny data files (as the result of expunging) into large 1MB data files.
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