pine can be patched to support Maildir... , and the generic pop and imap
server also has a patch....
Procmail does deliveries to Maildir fine.....
Check out links off www.qmail.org if you are interested....
200mb in one mbox? Wow!!!!
Surely that takes about half an hour to modify....
The change is quite easy.... there is an mbox to Maildir utility.... I've
never made any huge conversions mind you.... 30 users with small boxes.
If its working don't fix it.... I'd make regular backups of your file
though.... One stuff up by your client and boom no more mail.
-Colin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Borg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Colin Humphreys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Graeme Merrall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] MS Outlook to Netscape mail conversion
>
> I haven't found a problem with it anyway so far.
>
> Had up to about 10,000 messages in a file at once
>
>
> Anyway does pine support maildirs? or it's too tired into mobox (seeing it
> comes from the same place the imap and pop server come from)
>
> What about changing procmail over?
>
> and converting over 200mb of email!
>
> I am not exactly keen to change
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Colin Humphreys wrote:
>
> > I would advise against dumping a large amount of email into the mbox
> > format... there is a huge amount of room for data corruption... use
Maildirs.
> >
> > The problem then is that I have yet to find a IMAP server that support
> > maildirs that is Outlook compliant....
> >
> >
> > Jeffrey Borg wrote:
> >
> > > I should write a howto about this
> > >
> > > You need two machines (one with the gates virus on it of course!)
> > > (or win4lin or vmware will do)
> > >
> > > For most distributions there should be a imap server there so usually
it's
> > > only a matter of removing the # from /etc/inetd.conf and reloading it.
> > >
> > > Once that is done you can just fire up oe and setup the imap account,
then
> > > just move your messages from the outlook expresses local folders to
the
> > > imap server.
> > >
> > > Of course usually the imap server has written mbox files anyway which
> > > netscape can directly read to import the email, or better still secure
the
> > > imap server and leave it there so you can use any email client you
wish to
> > > read your email.
> > >
> > > The other option is just to take the mbox files and put them in
netscapes
> > > mail path.
> > >
> > > Anyway worked for me. It can even apply to get those hotmail messages!
> > > (using oe5)
> > >
> > > On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Graeme Merrall wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm using Gnome-Helix as my desktop of choice now and Netscape for
mail
> > > > until Evolution is useable. I've got a pretty large amount of email
in
> > > > MS-Outlook .pst format that I'd like to get into Netscape Mail or at
> > > > least access without installing Win4Lin and Outlook just to look at
the
> > > > darn things.
> > > > Is there such a converter out there?
> > >
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