Re: POP to mbox converter?

[Pedro Fernandes Macedo <webmaster margo bijoux nom br>]

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....

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Pedro Macedo