Ian R. Justman wrote:

When I use a mail program to do the migration from mbox to maildir, selecting "order received ascending", it works nicely, but one very small problem: When I go to look at the newly-populated folder, everything is in reverse order. I've tried it with T'bird and I've tried it with Pine. Both yield the same results. I'm thinking the issue might be with Dovecot. Or is it a peculiarity with maildir? Or am I better off using other means to convert a mbox folder to maildir?

Message ordering works fine here (with maildir's) so perhaps it is an issue of nomenclature. I use "date ascending" which probably more accurately sorts the messages in terms of when the sender sent the message. The newest messages show up at the bottom of the list. Is that not what you see?

Or rather, perhaps using the mail program to do the migration is interfering with the order. Are you saying you are sending the messages to yourself? This would create a new RECEIVED: line which would be in the order the messages were transferred, not(!) the order the messages were originally received.

Check out OfflineIMAP:

http://gopher.quux.org:70/devel/offlineimap

for transferring messages from one account to another...

HTH

John

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I wrote:

Hi, all.

I have been playing with the notion of migrating some of my folders to maildir because it's a lot easier to manage that way from a reader standpoint. The big question I have is how do I maintain message ordering in each folder?

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Thanks to all who sent your suggestions. I found a solution that worked exactly for what I wanted and one that might come in handy in the future.

I just need to muck about a bit more with the code to make sure that any decision to migrate to a hybrid mbox/maildir setup with a test series release isn't one in vain. :)

--Ian.