Big email mess ! How do I clean it up ? (Evolution, Thunderbird, maildir, mbox)
Paul Allen Newell
pnewell at cs.cmu.edu
Thu Dec 15 05:16:29 UTC 2011
On 12/14/2011 9:04 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 12/15/2011 12:58 PM, Linux Guy wrote:
>> Long story short.
>>
>> I have several thousand maildir emails in about 10 directories in
>> Evolution. I need to get them into existing directories in
>> Thunderbird which uses mbox format.
>>
>> How ?
>>
>>
> I thankfully haven't run across this problem since I've used IMAP since
> its inception. But, if I had this problem I would first google "convert
> maildir to mbox" to see if there is anything that strikes my fancy.
>
> As an alternative, being the lazy IMAP person I am, I'd create an IMAP
> account and upload my maildir directories to the IMAP server and then
> download them to my TB localstore.
>
I use mb2md in conjunction with clamav, so I am presuming there is a
reverse?
Paul
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