maildir if I remember correctly has an inc command once you get it set up. It looks for an mbox file and does the conversion of that mbox file for you and loads the mail into the mail directories for you.
On Thu, 13 Dec 2018, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 11:15:52 > From: Victor Sudakov <v...@sibptus.ru> > To: mutt-users@mutt.org > Subject: Re: Hide a message? > > Dan Ritter wrote: > >> > >> Is there a way to hide a message (e.g. with a certain subject) from view in > >> a mailbox, without actually deleting it? > >> > >> The dovecot IMAP server keeps its folder (mailbox) metadata as a > >> pseudo-message. When I access those mboxes locally with mutt, I see this > >> pseudo-message but I don't want to. > > > >That doesn't happen in Maildir storage. Is it reasonable to > >switch from mbox to maildir? > > An interesting idea! > > I have over 400 mboxes in my ~/Mail directory, some of them being > mailing list archives, others being Usenet groups archives, or mboxes > inherited from my decommissioned CommuniGate server. > > My dovecot configuration is simple: "mail_location = > mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u" > > If I knew how to convert all this stuff to Maildir storage... Do I have to > convert all of them at once? > > --
