Re: How to convert maildir to mbox format
Larry Alkoff <labradley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There are many mbox to maildir format conversion programs
> but I have not found one going the other way.
>
> Does anyone know of such?
Mutt does such. Open an mbox, tag every message, and tag-save them to a
pre-existing maildir.
qmail also includes "maildir2mbox".
> It doesn't seem that it would be so hard to make:
[...]
> for *.msg do
> blank line
> From "Return-Path" "day-date-time"
> message
>
> one at a time to a file.mbx using the >> addend.
Not quite. You'll need to do From escaping as well.
Charles
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