[Dovecot] tool for convertin mbox to maildir

[Todd Piket]

I used mb2md 3.20 when I migrated all of MTU (~20,000 users) to maildir. 
  I did tweak it a bit 'cuz I wanted it to go fast so I wrote a forking 
"wrapper" program around it.  I also added the ability to detect and 
build the .customflags file and the dovecot-uidlist file for each folder 
so the users wouldn't even notice we switched to a different mail server 
(except for the down time :).  For the most part, that is exactly what 
happened.  The .customflags and uidlist file creation are optional and 
build files with a syntax appropriate for Dovecot 0.99.xx.

If you only need to move a few users I'd use mb2md w/o modification.  If 
you need to move a LOT and fast, I'd recommend my tweaked code with the 
forking "wrapper".  You can specify how many processes you would like it 
fork off.  Should be pretty self explanatory.  You can find it here:

http://svn.dcs.it.mtu.edu/email.mtu.edu/convert_tools/tags/mb2md-release-4.0/

Regards,

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| Todd Piket                        | Email: todd at mtu.edu    |
| Sr. Programmer/Analyst            | Phone: (906) 487-1720  |
| Distributed Computing Services    |                        |
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the.buratino at rambler.ru wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> Can anybody advise me nice and well-tested script for converting mbox to
> maildir format that saves all message flags ?
>