[Dovecot] Migrating from UW: mbx detection and conversion

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Thursday, January 29, 2004 3:12 PM -0500 "Eric S. Johansson"
<esj at harvee.org> wrote:

> I'm faced with the exact same problem at a client site.  Unfortunately, all
> you can do is use mbxcvt from the UW utilities kit to convert mbx->mbox then
> use mb2md to finish the conversion to maildir.

IIRC, the utils package was deprecated and most of it was rolled into the main
UW-IMAP package. mailutil replaces mbxcvt and several other programs.
 
> it sucks, it's horrible, it's really ugly but it's a side effect of the
> politics of mailbox formats.  BUT dovecot is so wonderful it makes it all
> worthwhile.

That's what I'm hoping.
 
> I'm just hoping that Timo gets the mbox support fixed RSN.

What's broken?