Date: 25 Apr 2003 12:49:23 -0500 From: Jeremy Gaddis <jeremy@gaddis.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Convert Sendmail Email to Qmail Message-ID: <1051292962.74187.10.camel@jupiter.main.gaddis.org> In-Reply-To: <20030425131446.GJ10208@devil.stderror.at> References: <20030425074217.90853.qmail@hpcaz.com> <20030425131446.GJ10208@devil.stderror.at>
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On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 08:14, Toni Schmidbauer wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 12:42:17AM -0700, webmaster@hpcaz.com wrote: > > QUESTION: > > What is the best way to convert from Sendmail's mailbox format (mbox) to > > Qmail's (maildir)? (Also moving from RedHat to FreeBSD--hence my post to > > this list. And, yes, I'm also posting to Qmail's list.) > > for local delivery i would use procmail. procmail handles mbox > and maildir. > > converting mbox to maildir is another story. on google, i found > the following tool: > > http://www.gerg.ca/hacks/mb2md/ Even better is a utility called safecat. I don't have the URL handy, but Google should find it fairly easily. safecat allows you to convert mbox files into Maildir's easy as shit. A quick one-liner per mbox is all it takes. `safecat -m maildir ~username/Maildir/ < mbox` or something like that. Doesn't get much easier than that. :) j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis <jeremy@gaddis.org> <http://www.gaddis.org>;
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