Stupid question regarding Thunderbird and IMAP

[Stephen Ryan]

On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 13:11 -0400, John Abreau wrote:
> Fred wrote:
> 
> > Thanks to both you and John. It is definitely using the mbox format. I'll 
> > have to switch it to using Maildir, but wonder about converting the mbox to 
> > Maildir in the many existing folders across many existing accounts.
> > 
> > Fun city...
> > 
> 
> A while back, I found a tool to convert mbox to Maildir that worked
> well. I don't recall where, offhand; it might have been bundled with
> Courier, or dovecot. It should be easy enough to find via google.

perfect_maildir.pl, from
http://perfectmaildir.home-dn.net/


I used this a few months ago when consolidating the accumulated cruft of
a decade's worth of email across a dozen accounts onto a single server.