On 8-Mar-2005 15:13 EST, Andrew Perrin wrote:
Any advice on transitioning from Pine to thunderbird? Specifically, I
have lots of mailboxes ni pine format, and would like to either migrate
them or just have t-bird be able to see them as mailboxes directly. But
pointing the "Local Folders" directory at the pine mail directory
doesn't do anything.
The difference is file structure. Pine uses the "maildir" format (feel
free to correct me if I'm wrong), and Thunderbird uses the "mbox" format,
but with subdirectories named with a .sbd extension.
The "mbox" format is the old UNIX mailbox format, where the file is
considered a folder, and contains a stack of RFC-822 messages separated
by a "From sender date-munge" line, the same at that used by the old UNIX
'mail' command and user mailboxes created by sendmail.
There are some tools to convert from one to the other, though I have no
experience running any. Qmail is supposed to ship with 'maildir2mbox',
so you can look for that on the Internet. Here is one solution:
http://www.systemsaligned.com/Learning_Centre/OSS_Projects/Maildir_to_mbox_Conversion_Utility/61/
Look at this for more info:
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/mail/qmail/qmail-manual-html/misc/INSTALL.mbox.html
Also there is "MailAvenger" with the 'mailexec' utility:
http://www.mailavenger.org/mailexec.html
A look at the FAQ pages at the Univ. of Washington (the creators of PINE)
suggests installing UW-imapd to deliver up your Pine-created files to any
IMAP compatible program, and not to try to convert them directly yourself:
http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/sysadmins.html , section 11.2
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Scott G. Hall
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