On 08/10/2023 01:25 AM, Eugene R via Postfix-users wrote: > Hello > > I think something like this should work > xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.domain.com:2,S > That is, change @ into dot, remove ".eml", and add ":2,S" suffix (marking > messages as read). > > The message sizes are Dovecot extension, I guess mutt will not use them > anyway. > > Best wishes > Eugene > > Get BlueMail for Android <https://bluemail.me> > On 10 Aug 2023, at 04:49, H via Postfix-users <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 07/31/2023 09:24 AM, Eugene R via Postfix-users wrote: > > Hello, Those "ugly characters" are there for a reason: they are > specified by the Maildir standard (and the Dovecot's extensions to it) to > encode various metadata such as message ID, size, flags, etc > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir https://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html > https://doc.dovecot.org/admin_manual/mailbox_formats/maildir/ Also, why the > "filename esthetics" even matters? The maildir directory is not supposed to > be viewed (let alone directly accessed or modified) by a user. Mail clients > and Dovecot provide useful (as well as format-independent and universal) > human-oriented interfaces and admin tools. Best wishes, Eugene On 31.07.2023 > 09:43, Fourhundred Thecat via Postfix-users wrote: > > Hello, I am using Maildir format on my server (Postfix + > Dovecot). The individual filenames have this format: > 1690633510.M94611123819.mail,S=11706,W=12202:2,S Now, I have another, > unrelated email account (not my mail server), and I have set up Thunderbird > with local Maildir support. When I look inside the folder, the emails have > this nice and clear format: for received: > [email protected] for sent: > [email protected] how could I have such > nice filenames on my server, with useful information in the filename, instead > of those ugly containing special characters like '=' and ':' ? Do the nioe > filenames come from Thunderbird, or from the mailserver ? thanks, > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Postfix-users mailing list -- [email protected] To > unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Postfix-users mailing list -- [email protected] To > unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > I have a related problem where I have to merge several Thunderbird > maildir directory trees into maildir directory trees to be used by mutt (and > postfix). As noted above, Thunderbird does not follow the same standard for > naming mail files so I plan to write a script to rename all Thunderbird mail > files "appropriately". > > What would the "minimum" requirement be for components to include when > renaming these individual mail files? > > The script would have to extract the appropriate information from each > individual mail. > > Thank you in advance. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Postfix-users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Postfix-users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
Thank you, I will try that. I am running an older version of Thunderbird and the mail files in the maildir are named 1680282914766155 etc., possibly representing the Unix timestamp, including microseconds, when downloaded from the mail server. Although the filename format is different from mentioned above, I guess that the names used by my version of Thunderbird would still work with postfix/mutt as long as they are unique and the ":2,S" suffix added? Thus, a mass rename adding the ":2,S" should suffice after which I can copy/move them to the appropriate cur subdirectory for use by mutt etc.?
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