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Re: Moving from mbox to Maildir

2009-02-25 12:10:41
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 08:04:27AM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* LuKreme <kremels(_at_)kreme(_dot_)com> [02-25-09 01:39]:
before I reinvent the wheel, has someone already written a  
mbox -> maildir program or procmail script?

Mutt can read/write either.  Open the mbox file([s] in mutt, tag each
message and copy them to the new box as /home/{user}/Mail/{box-name}/.
Set "folder" in .muttrc as /home/user/Mail/ first.  Note trailing
slashes.

Yes, it's trivial in mutt.  It's also trivial on the command
line with procmail/formail.

 % formail -s procmail -m DEFAULT=/path/to/maildir/folder/ /dev/null < mbox

I do it all the time, also by alias to move the occasional false poz
from my spam folder to my real inbox.

There are also open-source perl scripts and such out there, but I don't
see the point, frankly.

Dallman
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