Stupid question regarding Thunderbird and IMAP

[Mark E. Mallett]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:16:06PM -0400, Dan Jenkins 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...
> >
> >Ok, well, I know enough now to know what to do.
> > 
> >
> The one I've used is called mbox2maildir.

I've seen a couple variations of a script by that name.  The one that's
on the qmail.org site has the annoying (to me) property that it
unilaterally removes the source mbox when it is done.  Me, I commented
out the unlink at the end since I'd really rather control that behaviour
outside of the script.  Whatever tool you find and use, you might want
to check for this.  (Then again, hopefully you will try it out first on
a copy of mbox-mailboxes in some test area, and notice if it does bad
things.)  Also, the scripts by that name that I have seen are fairly
bare-bones in that they make no attempt to set the newly created file
date/times or preserve any meta-data (all of which is pretty hard to
guess about anyway).

mm

BTW we use dovecot, and have one system using dovecot with mboxes
without issue that I know of.  'tho that system it's not used by very
many people, and I have no idea if any of them are using Thunderbird.