1 Jul 2004 02:50
Re: [clug] Converting mailboxes to IMAP
Following from what Mikal has said.... I have also used evolution to view my local /var/spool file as a mail account and also setup up an IMAP mail account on the destination server in the same client. Then it is just a case of drag and drop. On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 07:31, Michael Still wrote: > Burn Alting wrote: > > > One of the differences is that, rather than the simple pop3 mail system > > I served my family's Windoze boxes with, Fedora only provides pop3 via > > the Cyrus IMAP mail system. > > mboxes (to which you refer) are the r0x0r. I'm now using dovecot with > mboxes as my imap server, and it's really nice. You might want to check > the dovecot website / fedora for a package. > > > I've worked out how to create the mail accounts under Cyrus IMAP and > > feed the IMAP mailboxes via postfix, but my problem is that I have a few > > mailboxes in the old format living in /var/spool/mail. > > > > There must be a 'conversion' tool but I can't find any documentation for > > one. I can always re-forward the mail to my users (everyone else at home > > who only use Windoze to read their mail), but surely there must be a > > command like > > Not that I'm aware of... Basically you want to convert mbox to maildir. > There are perl scripts, but they're scary. You're probably best of doing > something like running dovecot on a laptop which you mboxes, and then > using offlineimap (which is quite nice too) to copy the mail to your > courier server.(Continue reading)
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