Re: How to convert maildir to mbox format

[David Champion <dgc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* On 2004.06.18, in <E1BbW51-0002Ny-00@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
*       "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?

You can use formail (from the procmail package) for this.

cd maildir
: > ../mbox
for file in new/*; do
        formail -I Status: <"$file" >>../mbox
done
for file in cur/*; do
        formail -a "Status: RO" <"$file" >>../mbox
done


Alternatively, mutt will save a mailbox in any supported format to
any other supported format. Set $mbox_type in muttrc to control the
preferred save format. You can use mutt to batch-convert a bunch of
scripts, if you set various options to disable prompting, and use the -e
option to mutt to feed it commands at startup.

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