POP to mbox converter?
John Arthur
lists at davey.net.au
Mon May 31 23:40:16 UTC 2004
> 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
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