[vps-mail] Re: [vps2] Convert qmail messages to sendmail format

[Lang Zerner <lang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[Removed cross-post to vps2 list]

robyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Does anyone know of a way to convert messages currently in a
>qmail format over to a VPS v2, using sendmail?

Disclaimer: I haven't tested the following approaches.

Qmail includes a utility called maildir2mbox that moves messages from 
maildir folders (qmail's format) to mbox files (sendmail's format).

Here is the concise (terse?) man page for maildir2mbox :
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/maildir2mbox.1.html

Here is a brief review by a user of the utility:
Maildir to mbox Conversion Utility
http://www.systemsaligned.com/content/view/18/19/
27 September 2004

A note from one user of maildir2mbox:
"The previous solution I posted works with two bugs....if you have 
spaces in any of your Maildir folder names, you need to edit the 
.mailboxlist file afterwards to fix it. And the conversion removed the 
"Read" flag on all the emails in all my folders."

Because mbox files don't support the notion of subfolders, you might 
have trouble converting maildirs with subfolders, especially if your 
maildir folder contains a combination of messages and subfolders.

Another option: You could use an IMAP client, set up an IMAP account for 
each server, and copy messages from one to the other.  Disadvantages of 
this approach: You have to create the destination folders and copy each 
folder's contents individually, and the "received" date might get 
changed to the date of the copy ("sent" date should remain unchanged).

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