Re: Mailbox conversion
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:50:29 +0000 (UTC)
debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
> After all this smalltalk, my real question: I still have lots of
> old e-mail in Microsoft format (with names like in-2005.dbx,
> out-2006.dbx, etc; some filenames are in Japanese, and the
> messages inside the .dbx files are mostly Japanese). I searched
> the web for "converting dbx to mbox". Found lots of answers, most
> of them seem old, and they do not agree. Is there a "canonical"
> way to make .dbx mail archives available to Linux Thunderbird/Icedove?
>
> Regards, Jan
I read of two solutions, both of which sound reasonably easy.
The first is to install a dos program called DbxConv, and, run it under
an emulator like dosemu to convert all your files. Available at
http://freenet-homepage.de/ukrebs/english/dbxconv.html
If the idea of running a dos program on Linux nauseates you, then I
also read that Kmail, with the kmailcvt (kmail converter) package
installed also works.
Mark
Reply to: