Stupid question regarding Thunderbird and IMAP

[Jeff Kinz]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:28:36PM -0400, Stephen Ryan wrote:
> 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/

To use tools you already may have this may work:
 
formail -s "mailbox file"  | /usr/lib/mh/rcvstore -unseen "Maildir"

Didn't test, but I seem to remember having done this in the past.

> 
> 
> 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.
> 
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