[Dovecot] convert non-standard mbox to maildir

[mouss]

Maarten Bezemer a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, mouss wrote:
> 
>> did you try:
>>     mb2md -R -s /path/to/your/pst/INBOX -d /path/to/Maildir
> 
> I did not, but did now, and it didn't work... As expected, it creates
> empty folders with the right name, containing sub folders named
> 'mailbox' with the contents of the original folder in the PST.
> 
> But, then I came across the -r switch, and added a -r mailbox. Then, it
> put the contents into the right folder, but still created empty mailbox
> sub-folders. I can live with that.. writing a script to just remove the
> empty mailbox folders (including the cur,new,tmp below it) took just
> about 2 minutes.
> 
> Now to find the best version of mb2md ;-)
> (There's a few pointers in the wiki page, but I don't like all the
> adaptations by Julian Fitzell, so I think I'll be patching my own
> version after all)
> 

if you can perl, you can write a converter from scratch. you know the
format of your "mailbox" file, so you can do whatever you want...