[OT] maildir to mbox ?

[Xavier Maillard]

Hello fellows,

this is a bit OT here, sorry to bother.
I need to convert my mails (currently stored in a MAILDIR tree strucutre) to mbox format.
What is the simplest way ?

Thank you.
--
Xavier

[Joost Kremers]

On Thu, May 24 2018, Xavier Maillard wrote:
> Hello fellows,
>
> this is a bit OT here, sorry to bother.
> I need to convert my mails (currently stored in a MAILDIR tree
> strucutre) to mbox format.
> What is the simplest way ?

The first Google link I get:

https://gist.github.com/nyergler/1709069

And if that's not to your liking, there's a host of other links
you can check out.

--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments

[Christophe Troestler]

Hi,

On 24 May 2018 at 04:27 GMT, Xavier Maillard wrote:
>
> this is a bit OT here, sorry to bother. I need to convert my mails (currently stored in a MAILDIR tree strucutre) to mbox format. What is the simplest way ?

On Debian (and other Linux distributions), there is “mb2md”.

My 0.02€,
C.



P.S. you should keep a backup of your mbox files before attempting the conversion.

[Xavier Maillard]

> On 24 May 2018 at 04:27 GMT, Xavier Maillard wrote:
> >
> > this is a bit OT here, sorry to bother. I need to convert my mails (currently stored in a MAILDIR tree strucutre) to mbox format. What is the simplest way ?
>
> On Debian (and other Linux distributions), there is “mb2md”.

This one does not exist on Slackware but the script is easy to find on the Internet.

Thank you for your help

--
Xavier

[Xavier Maillard]

> User-agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 25.3.50.1
> From: Joost Kremers <joostk...@fastmail.fm>
> Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 08:32:47 +0200
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I should have asked something more more emacs-ish :) (eventually even
better: a mu4e-centric solution).

Anyway that link is okay.

Thank you,

--
Xavier

[Joost Kremers]

On Fri, May 25 2018, Xavier Maillard wrote:
> I should have asked something more more emacs-ish :) (eventually
> even
> better: a mu4e-centric solution).

Since mu4e doesn't read mbox, the latter is unlikely. :-) But Gnus
can handle both mbox and maildir, so in theory you could set up
Gnus and then use it to copy the messages in your maildir folder
to a newly created mbox folder. (I've done this in the other
direction with mutt.) I suspect a non-Emacs solution will be
quicker and more convenient, though. :-)