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Re: mail synchronisation between laptop and desktop



On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:21:28AM +0100, Daniel Andor wrote:
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>Any tools to convert mbox to maildir?

sledge:~$ apt-cache show mb2md
Package: mb2md
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 104
Maintainer: Noel Koethe <noel@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 3.10-5
Depends: perl5, libtimedate-perl
Filename: pool/main/m/mb2md/mb2md_3.10-5_all.deb
Size: 19910
MD5sum: fdc239f7120785d477d2c042a42cacc3
Description: Converting Mbox mailboxes to Maildir format
 A Perl script that takes one or more Mbox format mailbox files in a
 directory and convert them to Maildir format mailboxes.As the Mbox
 format has some drawbacks, D. J. Bernstein created the Maildir format
 when he wrote Qmail. With the Mbox format all mail of a specific
 folder is stored as one large text file. The Maildir format stores
 each mail as a separate file. It is a faster and more efficient way
 to store mail. It works particularly well over NFS, which has a long
 history of locking-related woes.
 The Mbox format is used by most of the POP3/IMAP servers, most mail
 servers (MTAs) and mail readers (MUAs). The Maildir format is used
 by Qmail, Courier-MTA and can be also used as a alternative mail
 storage format by Postfix and Exim. A good POP3/IMAP server for
 Maildirs is Courier IMAP.
 .
 Mb2md.pl does not only convert mailbox files into a Maildir but
 also the /var/spool/mail/$USER mailspool file. It is smart enough
 to not transfer a dummy message such as the UW IMAPD puts at the
 start of Mbox mailboxes - and you could add your own search terms
 into the script to make it ignore other forms of dummy first message.
 .
 http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/


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