[Dovecot] mbox vs maildir

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Tue Jul 10 21:08:48 EEST 2007


On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 13:57 -0400, FiL @ Kpoxa wrote:
> >>
> >> The last time I tried to convert from mbox to maildir, things got 
> >> pretty botched up, no data loss, but it wasn't pretty. :-)
> > just because you got it wrong doesn't make it's hard. you probably 
> > didn't take enough time to get it right.
> 
> Well, if you know the RIGHT way - just share it with the rest of us.
> I was asking Timo before and as far as I understood - there is no way of 
> converting mbox to Maildir without losing message UIDs.

With existing tools. It would be pretty easy to write such a tool that
creates dovecot-uidlist file with correct UIDs.

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