[CentOS] Command line IMAP client
Jason Sutherland
jay at jaysweb.net
Wed Apr 12 18:39:51 UTC 2006
I moved from mbox to Maildir back in November. I used script found here ...
http://home.uninet.ee/~ragnar/2md/2md-1.11.
A little bit of a pain with folders but it will do them.
-Jason
Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote the following on 04/12/06 08:30:
> Quoting Tom Brown <tom.brown at goodtechnology.com>:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I want to download all messages from an IMAP mailbox but i want this
>> to be outputted into MailDir format. I tried using fetchmail but this
>> outputted the mailbox into mbox format. Is there an IMAP client that
>> works on the command line but will output into MailDir format or
>> failing that how reliable is converting from mbox to MailDir ?
>
>
> I remember there were some utilities distributed with wu-imapd source
> that might do what you want. A perl script that would split mbox
> mailbox into maildir format is also trivial to write. If you are
> transferring between two IMAP servers (one using mbox, the other using
> maildir), you can also use utility such as imapsync and not worry
> about the storage format of particular IMAP server.
>
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