On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 21:17:20 +0300 Sami Ketola <sami.ketola@dovecot.fi> wrote:

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On 2 Oct 2018, at 21.05, Mark Foley <mfoley@ohprs.org> wrote:

I have a mbox file of emails. I want to convert this to Maildir giving me individual message files per email. I've looked at dsync, but as far as I can tell this wants a specific target user and it appears that it will "distribute" the converted messages into that user's INBOX.

I don't want to put these mbox messages into any particular user's Maildir hierarchy, just export to file-per-message format to a destination directory of my choosing.

Is this possible?

Yes.

[root@ketola /]# mkdir /test [root@ketola /]# chown vmail /test [root@ketola /]# doveadm backup -u sami Maildir:/test/

done.

Sami

Excellent! Thank you. I'll give that a try. I also found: mb2md.pl downloadable from https://wiki.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat.

--Mark