IMAP URLs

[Kevin D. Clark]

Michael ODonnell writes:

> I just noticed that for any of my email folders Thunderbird will
> report an URL of the form:
> 
>    imap://userName@serverName/pathName
> 
> ...and I wonder if there's a Linux tool like wget that I can use
> to pull email folders and such from an Exchange server, hopefully
> into a local hierarchy whose layout reflects that of the Exchange
> server's and, ideally (I can dream!) one file per msg, MH-style.

I've done this before by using "fetchmail --folder" and feeding the
results to procmail.

Procmail reminder:  if you want the output to be placed in a MH
folder, specify a destination that ends with "/."; if you want the
output to end up in a Maildir, make sure the destination ends with
"/".

Regards,

--kevin
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