Re: Old Seamonkey emails into new exim4 maildirs
David Witbrodt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if any email gurus are reading debian-user, and are
> willing to share some advice?
>
> In the past, I used email client apps like Seamonkey to retrieve
> email from my ISP's POP3 server. I tend to save a lot of emails, sorted
> into directories based on who-was-the-sender or what-was-the-topic.
> This has left me with a large number of text files -- I assume mbox
> format -- on two old machines, which I used as my main desktop machine
> in different eras.
> I have already backed up those mbox files, but I just finished setting
> up a home network with 3 machines -- one acting as smarthost for the
> other two, and which connects to my ISP's SMTP server on behalf of all
> the machines in my home network. The local smarthost is using exim4
> (with Maildirs) and courier-imap to make my email available to all of the
> machines inmy network (regardless of which OS is running).
>
> My question is simple: is there a way I can give exim4 those mbox
> files from the 2 old machines so that it will move each email into the
> new Maildir setup, and without "sending" or forwarding them to the
> new machine. (In other words, I would like to preserve the header
> info in its current state.)
>
If you exim4 is only a smart host, then it doesn't need to see these
emails and doesn't care about them. What you probably want is
courier-imap to see them.
You'd need to convert them to Maildir format (there are tools available,
such as mb2md) and put these Maildirs where courier-imap looks for them.
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