John Arthur wrote:
>I am in the process of converting from OS/2 to Linux and I have
>thousands of
>e-mails saved in separate pop files. Does anybody know of a
>program that can
>convert all these pop files into mbox files? Or if I would have
>to it myself
>what is the precise structure of those mboxes?
>
>
>
Hi Eric,
For starters if you have thousands of emails you probably do not want to use
mbox. mbox stores all emails in one file so storing them in a maildir format
is better.
What I normally do to convert emails from MS Windows is to create a new
account on my IMAP server and simply drag & drop them in the email client
program normaly Outlook Express or Outlook 2000
Fedora comes with dovecot which I have not used and FC2 also has Cyrus
(Which I use on RH9) but it should make the conversion pretty simple.
Regards John
If the files are stored in maildir format , dovecot can handle them
easily .. no need to convert them to mbox...
Now john , this is a interesting idea.. the problem is that this
approach is not very scalable... If you have a few users , then it's
simple.. but if your network has hundreds of users, then it'll be a
daunting task...
I wonder if there is a easier way to do this kind of migration....
--
Pedro Macedo