After reading your link about mbox...

So, our Mutt use mboxcl format with a Content-Length: #### in headers.

I will change to maildir format, each mail its own file, after make
backups of my mboxes.

I think it should be posible inside Mutt to change from mbox to maildir.

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Jose Angel Navarro Cortes
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El 10.09.13 10:09:19 > Kyle Wheeler dijo:
> On Sunday, September 12 at 07:16 PM, quoth Tim Gray:
> > On Sep 12, 2010 at 11:37 AM -0400, Thaddeus Morgan wrote:
> >> 1) What is the best method of converting a large number of mbox folder
> >> into Maildir folders? I've read that mutt's -f and -e options are
> >> suitable for doing this. Is there a best practice I should follow?
> >
> > Mutt can do it.
> 
> Mutt *can* do it, but depending on the type of mbox folder, perhaps 
> *shouldn't*. Mutt makes certain assumptions about your mbox folder's 
> format that may not be correct, and can result in permanent (subtle) 
> corruption of the messages (if mutt is wrong). The *best* way to 
> convert from one format to another is to use a program designed for 
> exactly the variant of mbox you have been using.
> 
> See 
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html
>  
> for details on the various formats of mbox.
> 
> ~Kyle
> -- 
> Everybody has to die... but I always believed an exception would be 
> made in my case.
>                                                      -- William Saroyan

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