Re: Converting from KMail

[Sam Watkins <swatkins@fastmail.fm>]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:01:39AM -0600, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> KMail is so bad about locking things while retrieving mail that I'd like to 
> try some of the alternatives such as Thunderbird. Unfortunately, mdir isn't 
> that well supported in other packages. Does anyone know of a tool to convert 
> from mdir to mbox format? I've done searches and found tools to go the other 
> way, but none to migrate back and forth.

mutt can do it:

open the mdir folder, tag all messages, save tagged messages as a new mbox folder

i.e. T.;s


This is not ideal, a command-line program would be better.
I don't know one offhand, and can't see one with apt-cache.


Sam