I did this recently.
For converting from mbox to Maildir, check out mb2md. I converted a huge collection of folders using it.
On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 11:11, Villalovos, John L wrote:
Does anyone have advice or pointers on good documentation on how to convert a system from using the Mbox format to using Maildir?
I recently upgraded to Fedora Core 2 from Fedora Core 1 and discovered that UW-IMAP was gone. So I switched over to using Dovecot. So far so good.
But I would like to convert my system to start using the Maildir format.
How easy is this to accomplish?
Can I keep my Inbox /var/spool/mail/user_name as an mbox format and have my other folders as Maildir?
I -think- you can, but I chose not to.
What would I have to change for Sendmail to make it use Maildir for the Inbox?
If you have procmail as your MDA off of sendmail, then sendmail doesn't need to be touched.
Can procmail support Maildir?
I'm using the procmails that come with RHEL3 and FC2 for Maildir folders without any problem.
The only trouble I experienced during the conversion was when I tried to move a huge folder using evolution. Evolution got confused near the end, and I'd been accepting new mail into the target folder, so I had a bit of a mess. I wound up moving stuff a second time using the command line, and eliminating duplicate messages using my sequivs program.
Any pointers or help would be much appreciated?
John
Dan Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu