What did you think of mbox to Maildir conversion tools that can be found
on www.qmail.org?
Regards.
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 02:39:36PM +0300, Mike Jackson wrote:
> Hello,
> I need to convert approx. 170 users from mbox to Maildir format. The users
> have a /var/spool/mail/username as their current imap inbox and
> ~username/mail/multiplefilenames as imap folders. This exists on the old
> server. The new server will be laid out as follows:
>
> /var/qmail/maildirs/username/Maildir
>
> I would like to copy the inbox and all imap folders for each user to a
> staging area on the new server with a single directory for each user, such
> as:
>
> /var/qmail/staging/user1
>
> that would contain files such as user1 (inbox from /var/spool/mail), and
> folders such as folder1 folder2 folder3 (from ~username/mail/). The
> conversion script would ideally go through every directory in
> /var/qmail/staging and create the maildir directory in /var/qmail/maildirs
> for each user. It would also take every file in mbox format in the users
> staging directory and put it into his maildir with the appropriate read or
> unread flag, as well as converting all files in the staging directory other
> than the inbox file into the same named folders in their maildirs.
>
> I would appreciate any advice from administrators who have sucessfully
> performed this same type of conversion. Please copy me personally if you
> reply.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
