[oclug]Mailbox to Maildir?

Rod Giffin rod at giffinscientific.com
Tue Jan 28 10:53:48 EST 2003


Collin McCrank said:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently using qmail with Mailbox deliveries on the mail server at
> work.  I'm considering moving to Postfix and having mail delivered to a
> Maildir format.  Now my problem is this, we currently have around 20
> users that connect to the mailbox using imap and I'll need some way of
> converting all their mail to the maildir format.
>
> Do any of you know of a way to do this?  Is there some kind of script
> that I can use?  I've been looking on the net with no real success.

I think kmail actually has a facility to do that - I'm not with my system
so I can't check, but it seems to me that I did it with kmail once not
long ago.  But there are a number of scripts you might want to check out.
Try a search on google for "mailbox to maildir"   There are a number of
scripts listed.  Also, you might want to try this:
http://home.uninet.ee/~ragnar/2md/





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