RE: POP to mbox converter?

["John Arthur" <lists davey net au>]

> 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