From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 4 17:19:41 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D7CC16A4BF for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 17:19:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (mta7.pltn13.pbi.net [64.164.98.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 438E944001 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 17:19:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from micheas@micheas.dyns.net) Received: from sol.a (adsl-64-170-113-204.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.170.113.204]) by mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (8.12.9/8.12.3) with SMTP id h950Jd1R013401 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 17:19:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 75830 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2003 00:19:49 -0000 Received: from tux.a (HELO tux) (mail@10.0.0.173) by sol.a with SMTP; 5 Oct 2003 00:19:49 -0000 Received: from micheas by tux with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1A5wcg-0000Cq-00 for ; Sat, 04 Oct 2003 17:19:42 -0700 From: Micheas Herman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <134575781.20031004191319@mygirlfriday.info> References: <1065246853.2817.21.camel@tux> <134575781.20031004191319@mygirlfriday.info> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1065313182.667.7.camel@tux> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 17:19:42 -0700 Sender: Micheas Herman Subject: Re: qmail: mbox to maildir preserving time stamps. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 00:19:41 -0000 On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 17:13, Gary wrote: > Hello Micheas, > > On Saturday, October 4, 2003, 12:54:13 AM, you hammered out: > > M> I have about 100 mboxes that I need to convert in to maildirs. > M> I REALLY want the timestamp of the files in the maildir to match the > M> timestamps inside the emails. > > M> Does anyone have a suggestion? > > There are several converters on www.qmail.org specifically here > > http://qmail.cdsinet.net/top.html#maildir > > I don't know if they keep the same timestamps, but I don't see why not. > You can always make a test of one. I found one that works. mb2md The others I tried don't backdate the timestamp of the files they are creating. mb2md is not perfect. it sets the date to when the files was sent not the time form the last mailserver, but it is better than 40,000 messages with the approximately the same time. Micheas > > -- > Best regards, > Gary > -- Micheas Herman