[CentOS] Command line IMAP client
Jay Lee
jlee at pbu.edu
Wed Apr 12 18:20:20 UTC 2006
Jason Sutherland wrote:
> 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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I have had great luck with IMAPCopy
http://home.arcor.de/armin.diehl/imapcopy/imapcopy.html. It connects
between any two IMAP Servers (say UW-IMAP and Courier-IMAP) and copies
messages from one to the other. Works great for me!
Jay
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