Comments on: Converting maildir to mbox

By: Corey

Corey — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:58:00 +0000

Where “C” = Less than, “D” = Greater than

By: Corey

Corey — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:57:28 +0000

Ah, forget it…this thing keeps thinking I’m uploading html.

for i in new/* cur/*;do formail C”$i” DD ../mbox;done

By: Corey

Corey — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:56:01 +0000

for i in new/* cur/*;do formail \\> ../mbox;done

By: Corey

Corey — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:54:35 +0000

Why not just use formail (Included with procmail)

Enter into the maildir, and do something like this:

for i in new/* ;do formail > ../mbox;done

By: i really have nothing to say

i really have nothing to say — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 00:09:55 +0000

[...] I’m in the process of migrating a domain from one server to Google Apps. I’ve got email dating back to 2001 on this server and I don’t want to lose it. However, I don’t really want it all imported to Google either. One problem I ran into is that MailSteward can import mbox files but doesn’t have support for maildir (that I could find). After flexing my Google-fu, I found this blog post which, in the comments, references this bash script. After downloading and running the script on my Maildir, I had a nice little 72Mb mbox file containing approximately 1,130 email. I transferred it to my laptop, fired up MailSteward and imported it. Within five minutes, MailSteward had imported the entire file, with the exception of 20 duplicate emails that it found. It skipped the dupes. Nice. [...]

By: TRTech

TRTech — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:53:53 +0000

Thanks Kanedaaa, worked like a charm…

By: Kanedaaa

Kanedaaa — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:54:17 +0000

I write bash script: http://kaneda.bohater.net/files/maildir2mbox.sh

By: mike

mike — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:56:00 +0000

Hey all, I tried the php script and was able to get it to create a file, but it doesn’t contain anything.

I didn’t get any errors when running it. I am on Redhat 9 / exim . Any ideas?

By: ken-ichi

ken-ichi — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 05:48:59 +0000

Done and done. Curly quotes problem solved using this advice.

By: Samat

Samat — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 05:17:11 +0000

Just to note: you want to turn off what I call “retard quotes” (the styled open and closed quotes that Microsoft Office uses and your blog is replacing real quotes with) so people who find this can just copy and paste.

My browser (Firefox on Linux) replaces these “retard quotes” with ‘?’s and I have to go back and fix them…