Re: mboxes and maildirs in .muttrc
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:29:25AM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Paul E Condon <pecondon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [02-02-09 01:03]:
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> not necessary. You may use mutt to change files from either format to
> the other. If mutt is set to mbox, you may open a maildir format box
> and copy/save the contents to another new box and they will be in the
> mbox format. Also, the opposite is true, if mutt is set to use
> maildir format, opening an mbox file and copy/save to a new box, the
> new box will be in maildir format.
Thanks a lot for all your replies! I've changed my mailboxes to
maildirs now - and am not messing around with two formats anymore. :)
Regards,
sigi