[TAG] maildir to mbox conversion

[J.Bakshi]

On Friday 22 Apr 2005 4:55 pm, Thomas Adam wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 09:28:57PM +0530, Joydeep Bakshi wrote:
> > finally I like to go for sylpheed-claws. at present it can't support
> > maildir folder .so I have to change all the mails of kmail from
> > maildir format to mbox. is there any script/programme which can do
> > this conversion ? Kmail can do this. but I am looking for any console
> > based or light weight GUI utility.
>
> Where do you get your information from?  Sylpheed-{claws,vanilla} has
> always supported maildirs - in fact it's mbox that it won't do, so I
> don't see what your problem is.
>
> If you want to go maildir -> mbox, 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

wanted to know *exactly* this information.
thanks.

> then the best way is to do it 
> manually, even if crudely put:
>
> ``
> cat foo >> ./mbox
> ''
>
> for each file.  Of course this is where formail(1) would come in handy,
> or any any of the MH tools that are available.  Going in the opposite
> direction is trivial:
>
> ``
> formail -s procmail < mbox
> ''
>
> which would then split up a message in an mbox one by one...
>
> -- Thomas Adam
>
> --
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