converting old uucp buffer files to maildir

Fri May 15 18:29:39 EEST 2020

Op 9-5-2020 om 13:59 schreef Michael Hirmke:
> Hi *,
>
> besides my dovecot maildir structure, that has been migrated from an
> Exchange server, I have an even older mail structure in an ancient uucp
> style. The program named CrossPoint I used for this isn't wideley known,
> but it used so called mpuffer files in a plain text format.
> It is the program I still use to write for example this mail.
>
> I wonder if there already exists a program or script to convert the
> files from this program to the Dovecot maildir structure or some Howto
> for writing it myself.

Maybe these guys can help you out:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/openxp5/

Regards,

Stephan.

>
> The format of these files looks like shown below.
> Mails are separated by two new lines.
>
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> KOP: <some_recipient>^M
> OEM: dovecot at dovecot.org^M
> ABS: ricardomachini at gmail.com (Ricardo Machini Barbosa)^M
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> X-XP-Boundary: ----=_NextPart_000_078A_01D61D64.E4184820^M
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>
> TIA.
>
> Bye.
> Michael.