Mail rescue from Dovecot Server

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Tue Jan 17 15:21:05 UTC 2017


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On Tue, 17 Jan 2017, Joakim Magnussen - MediaLabs AS wrote:

> I have a mail folder from Dovecot server. Screenshot: 
> https://i.stack.imgur.com/11NHs.jpg

looks like Maildir

>
> Is there any way to import to Outlook, or otherwise convert to readable 
> format?

"readable" is kind of stretchy. Each file in the cur and new subdirs 
represents one raw message.

> I could setup Dovecot on my own server if there is any point.

That's one way.
There are some Maildir-aware clients, such as mutt.
Convert Maildir to mbox, which can be used with Thunderbird:
https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat

There are some converters mbox -> pst .

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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