On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 06:43:28PM -0600, Puneet Kishor wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 12:58:07AM +0100, Richard wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:45:57PM -0600, Puneet Kishor wrote: > > > Greetings. I am a very new user of mutt (and commandline MUAs in > > > general). My question most likely reflects my lack of understanding of > > > how mutt works, nevertheless -- > > > > > > I use mutt to read email from two Gmail IMAP accounts, and I cache the > > > headers on my disk in ~/.mutt/cache/hcache and message bodies in > > > ~/.mutt/cache/bodies/. > > > > > > I have a few years of mail I downloaded via Apple Mail.app that are > > > stored in ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/.mbox/Messages/ where is 2000 .. > > > 2010. All these messages have .emlx extension. How do I transfer these > > > messages to my mutt store so I can read and search them via mutt? > > > > you need an emlx to mbox (or maildir) converter, a quick google search > > reveals > > a large number of solutions of which I do not know any. > > > > Thanks for the pointer. So, the first step is for me to find a suitable > tool that will convert my .emlx messages to "mbox (or maildir)." > Question -- what do I need here? mbox or maildir?
mutt handles both equally well, its a matter of personal preference. > And, then what? My mutt cache is in ~/.mutt/cache/hcache (this is a > file) and ~/mutt/cache/bodies/ (this is a directory with separate files, > one file per message, not unlike the .emlx files for Mail.app. Is this > the maildir format? Do I just copy the converted files from the first > step above to ~/.mutt/cache? Seems like I need the headers separate from > the bodies. Will mutt just build the header cache for the "imported" > messages? no, you would copy the mbox/maildir into ~/Mail and configure mutt to use it as another separate folder, eg imported-mail. Once there it might work to tag all messages and "save" them into the IMAP folder or there may be many other methods to import old mail to google but I would probably leave them in the imported-mail folder and worry about that. Richard --- Name and OpenPGP keys available from pgp key servers
