Re: mboxes and maildirs in .muttrc
Hi Anders!
On Mon, 02 Feb 2009, Anders Rayner-Karlsson wrote:
> > There is a program mb2md that converts mbox format to maildir
> > format.
> > I have found it difficult to use, but I have made it work. mb2md might
> > work very nicely if you give it a clean, well maintained mbox format
> > email directory, but it sounds like that is not what you have, so I
> > recommend using bash and core-utils to clean up the mess somehow. I
> > have been doing that myself for the past couple of weeks.
>
> I think there is some Perl or Python tools, but you could actually
> just use mutt itself to sort and move the mail around.
I have done something like this:
Consider this minimal .muttrc
,----
| # Specify which type, use any of
| # Maildir, MH, mbox und MMDF
| set mbox_type=Maildir
|
| # Where to store, dir must exist!
| set my_archivedir="~/mutt_archive/$mbox_type"
|
| # Create without confirmation
| set confirmcreate=no
|
| # append without confirmation
| set confirmappend=yes
|
| # quit without confirmation
| set quit=yes
|
| folder-hook . 'push <tag-pattern>~A<enter>\
| <tag-prefix><copy-message><kill-line>\
| $my_archivedir<enter><quit>'
`----
Then I start mutt using this .muttrc with the mailbox that should be
converted:
~$ mutt -F /tmp/muttrc.minimal -f $mailbox
Now mutt will happily store all mails below ~/mutt_archive/ in either
a folder named maildir,mbox, mh or mmdf depending on the chosen target
format. And it will not mess with your original mailbox, just create
copies.
regards,
Christian
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