Asheesh Laroia wrote:
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Erin D. Hughes wrote:
Evaggelos Balaskas wrote:
to avoid such problems i simple create a new user with userdb_mail=maildir and using thunderbird i just copied the emails from one account to other :)
Thanks Evaggelos for your reply unfortunately I need to convert about 17,000 mboxes to maildirs. Re-reading my last mail I see that maybe I was not so clear.
I have used mb2md to good success, albeit not on so many.
-- Asheesh.
When I was switching over a bunch of mboxes from Thunderbird mb2md did not work out. I forget what went wrong though. I had problems because Thunderbird stores its mail in a non-standard mbox way. I ended up deleting some things and using dovecots convert-tool. The convert tool is not in debian etch so I had to use one of my home computers with a newer dovecot. Then I just ran "convert-tool user /home/gokee2 mbox:/mnt/files/email/nochange/ maildir:/mnt/files/email/dovecot/a/" to change the mboxs over to maildir.
Good luck!
Gokee2