[Dovecot] Extracting mbox format from Dovecot IMAP (mdbox)

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 13:09 +0000, Giles Coochey wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for a quick tool that can connect to my IMAP account grab 
> all the messages in a particular folder and dump them to a mbox format file?
> 
> Anyone know a quick easy tool to do that?
> 
> This is a spam folder that I'd like to do some Bayes spam learning on, 
> but since I've migrated to mdbox I don't think I can do this directly on 
> the mailbox.
> 
> Any thoughts appreciated.

With v2.0: dsync -m spam backup mbox:~/mbox-mails/

There are also doveadm move and doveadm import commands that can do
this.