HowTo import Cyrus Mail-Dir into Thunderbird, without Cyrus?

[Bron Gondwana]

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012, at 12:33 PM, Alexandros Gougousoudis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> one friend got a copy of his maildirectory in Cyrus from the admins of 
> his university when he left. They told him, he can import it into 
> Thunderbird and use the old mails. How can this be done? Is there a 
> converter?
> 
> We're using also Cyrus, all emails are single files in 
> /var/spool/cyrus/mail/user, I don't know any way how to use these files 
> with a mailreader without the serversoftware.  Any hint is welcome

If you rename them with .eml on the end, they'll load into just about
anything.  They're just single rfc822 files.

I have actually opened a bug for renaming them to end with .eml in Cyrus.
Annoyingly hard to patch in later though :(

Bron.
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