Using mbox2cyrus.pl

[Patrick Goetz]

This is one of the most useful pieces of information I've gotten in a 
long time -- Thanks!

(as a none mutt user, I had no idea one could do anything like this)


On 10/07/2010 11:24 AM, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 07 Oct 2010, Patrick Goetz wrote:
>
>> I have a few mbox files that I need to transfer to cyrus (one relatively
>> large ~3MB).  I downloaded the perl script mbox2cyrus.pl, and looked
>> over the code, and I'm not confident that this will work for a system with
>>
>> unixhierarchysep: yes
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience with this?  Am I going to have to
>> rewrite this script to get at my mbox files?
>
> If you have mutt around the place you can do:
>
> mutt -f<your_mbox>
> (should open the mbox)
>   T
>   all<return>
> (should tag all files)
>   ;C
> imaps://<username>@<imapserver>/<foldername>
> (copy all tagged mails
>
> which should copy all mails to<foldername>  on that imap server.
>
> Gavin
>
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