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NAME

       mb2md -- Converts Mbox mailboxes to Maildir format.

SYNOPSIS

       mb2md [-h]

       mb2md [-c]  [-m]  [-d destdir]

       mb2md [-c]  [-s sourcefile]  [-d destdir]

       mb2md [-c]  [-s sourcedir]  [-l wu-mailboxlist]	[-R|-f somefolder]  [-d destdir]  [-r strip_extension]

DESCRIPTION

       mb2md Converts Mbox mailboxes to Maildir format.

OPTIONS

       -h	 Show summary of options.

       -c	 Use the Content-Length: headers (if present) to find the beginning of the next message.  Use with caution! Results may be unreli-
		 able. I recommend to do a run without "-c" first and only use it if you are certain, that the mbox in question really	needs  the
		 "-c" option.

       -m	 If this is used then the source will be the single mailbox at /var/spool/mail/blah for user blah and the destination mailbox will
		 be the "destdir" mailbox itself.

       -s sourcedir
		 Directory, relative to the user's home directory, which is where the the "somefolders" directories are located.  Or if  directory
		 starts  with  a "/" it is taken as a absolute path, e.g. /mnt/oldmail/user _OR_ A single mbox file which will be converted to the
		 destdir.

       -R	 If defined, do not skip directories found in a mailbox directory, but runs recursively into each of  them,  creating  all  wanted
		 folders in Maildir.

		 Incompatible with '-f'

       -f somefolder
		 Directories,  relative  to "sourcedir" where the Mbox files are. All mailboxes in the "sourcedir" directory will be converted and
		 placed in the "destdir" directory.  (Typically the Inbox directory which in this instance is also functioning	as  a  folder  for
		 other mailboxes.)

		 The "somefolder" directory name will be encoded into the new mailboxes' names.  See the example in the USAGE file (see below).

		 This  does  not  save	an UW IMAP dummy message file at the start of the Mbox file.  Small changes in the code could adapt it for
		 looking for other distinctive patterns of dummy messages too.

		 Don't let the source directory you give as "somefolders" contain any "."s in its name, unless you want to create subfolders  from
		 the IMAP user's point of view. See the example in the USAGE file (see below).

		 Incompatible with '-R'

       -d destdir
		 Directory  where  the	Maildir format directories will be created.  If not given, then the destination will be ~/Maildir .  Typi-
		 cally, this is what the IMAP server sees as the Inbox and the folder for all user mailboxes.  If this begins with a '/' the  path
		 is considered to be absolute, otherwise it is relative to the users home directory.

       -r strip_extension
		 If  defined  this  extension  will be stripped from the original mailbox file name before creating the corresponding maildir. The
		 extension must be given without the leading dot (".").  See the example in the USAGE file (see below).

       -l WU-file
		 File containing the list of subscribed folders.  If migrating from WU-IMAP the list of subscribed folders will be  found  in  the
		 file called .mailboxlist in the users home directory.	This will convert all subscribed folders for a single user:

		 /bin/mb2md -s mail -l .mailboxlist -R -d Maildir

		 and for all users in a directory as root you can do the following:

		 for i in *; do echo $i;su - $i -c "/bin/mb2md -s mail -l .mailboxlist -R -d Maildir";done

USAGE

       Please read the USAGE documentation (zless /usr/share/doc/mb2md/USAGE.gz).

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was	written by Noel Kothe noel@debian.org for the Debian system (but may be used by others).  Permission is granted to
       copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later  version  pub-
       lished by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.

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