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Re: Maildir or mbox?



On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 12:43:33PM +0100, Rafal Czlonka wrote:
> Andrey Zhidenkov wrote:
> > Thank you. One more question: can I convert my mbox folder to maildir 
> > format?
> 
> Yes you can.
> 
> > I can suppose that I can move all my mail into another folder, configure 
> > procmail
> > to work with maildir and then run procmail again. Is that right solution?
> 
> You can convert your mbox to maildir first. The only difference between
> mbox and maildir in procmail is "/" at the end of the mailbox name.

No, that is not the only difference. Maildir doesn't require locking.

google for converting mbox to maildir -- there were plenty of hits when
I did this ages ago.

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Chris.
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