Thanks to Julian, I now understand that the mb2md exec downloadable from the wiki Migration/Mail Format page is NOT the same as the vanilla one (even though it has the same name) and it has these extra flags. For some reason I can download and unpack it just fine on my PC with WinZip but on AIX the tar barfs after the gunzip....
Thanks Julian!
Stewart Dean wrote:
I'm sure it comes from my being a gormless idiot, but whatever is the -UKWS argument immediately after the mb2md.pl invocation?
$MB2MD -UKWS -s "$INBOX" -d "$WORKING"
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