From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 25 10:56:10 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 1649137B407 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 10:56:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blueriver.net (moseisley.blueriver.net [12.166.16.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CA4E43FBD for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 10:56:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeremy@gaddis.org) Received: from gaddis.org (tnt-12-166-19-107.orl.blueriver.net [12.166.19.107]) by blueriver.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id h3PI3d9B014823 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 13:03:40 -0500 Received: (qmail 40956 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2003 17:49:23 -0000 Received: from jupiter.main.gaddis.org (HELO ?192.168.0.4?) (192.168.0.4) by gaddis.org with SMTP; 25 Apr 2003 17:49:23 -0000 From: Jeremy Gaddis To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20030425131446.GJ10208@devil.stderror.at> References: <20030425074217.90853.qmail@hpcaz.com> <20030425131446.GJ10208@devil.stderror.at> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1051292962.74187.10.camel@jupiter.main.gaddis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 25 Apr 2003 12:49:23 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Convert Sendmail Email to Qmail 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: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 17:56:10 -0000 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