Re: [vps-mail] Convert qmail messages to sendmail format

[Scott Wiersdorf <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 08:36:27PM +0200, Godwin Stewart wrote:
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> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:06:57 -0700 (MST), robyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > Does anyone know of a way to convert messages currently in a qmail
> > format over to a VPS v2, using sendmail?  I have found a few tools to
> > convert from sendmail to qmail - but not qmail to sendmail.
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> Not sure what you mean here. sendmail at least is a mail relay and
> doesn't store messages at all, and therefore doesn't have a "format" as
> such.

Robyn probably means converting from maildir to mbox format. A little
googling found this script:

  #!/bin/sh
  #
  # LEG06012001
  # Convert Mails in Maildir format in ~/Maildir/ to mbox format in ~/Mail/inbox
  #   as required by Kmail.

  MAILDIR=~/Maildir/
  MAILTMP=tmpdir
  MAIL=/var/mail/$USER
  export MAILDIR MAILTMP MAIL

  /var/qmail/bin/maildir2mbox

You'll *definitely* want to check the path to maildir2mbox (if such a
thing really exists) on, say, a Signature account where qmail is
used. I don't find maildir2mbox on my VPS by default, but it appears
to be part of the default qmail installation.

Scott
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