On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 01:40, 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. Hi John, I did find out about the mbox structure and I have actually already converted the emails. Not that I like the large mbox files but it turned out to be very easy to write a script to do it. It was more important for me to get on to Linux now than to wait for a more appropriate (and possibly difficult) conversion. Now I have amble time to find out how to convert from mbox to whatever is best. Is there a mail agent that would archive the messages in an sql data base or similar? BTW, thanks to all who have contributed with ideas for this conversion. -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen
