On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:29:25AM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Paul E Condon <pecon...@mesanetworks.net> [02-02-09 01:03]: > > > > There is a program mb2md that converts mbox format to maildir format. > > I have found it difficult to use, but I have made it work. mb2md might > > work very nicely if you give it a clean, well maintained mbox format > > email directory, but it sounds like that is not what you have, so I > > recommend using bash and core-utils to clean up the mess somehow. I > > have been doing that myself for the past couple of weeks. > > > > not necessary. You may use mutt to change files from either format to > the other. If mutt is set to mbox, you may open a maildir format box > and copy/save the contents to another new box and they will be in the > mbox format. Also, the opposite is true, if mutt is set to use > maildir format, opening an mbox file and copy/save to a new box, the > new box will be in maildir format.
Thanks a lot for all your replies! I've changed my mailboxes to maildirs now - and am not messing around with two formats anymore. :) Regards, sigi
