POP to mbox converter?

[Ed K.]

> On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 01:40, John Arthur wrote:
>>> I am in the process of converting from OS/2 to Linux and I have
>>> thousands of
>>> e-mails saved in separate pop files. Does anybody know of a
>>> program that can
>>> convert all these pop files into mbox files? Or if I would have
>>> to it myself
>>> what is the precise structure of those mboxes?
>>>
>>
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> For starters if you have thousands of emails you probably do not want to use
>> mbox. mbox stores all emails in one file so storing them in a maildir format
>> is better.
>>
>> What I normally do to convert emails from MS Windows is to create a new
>> account on my IMAP server and simply drag & drop them in the email client
>> program normaly Outlook Express or Outlook 2000
>>
>> Fedora comes with dovecot which I have not used and FC2 also has Cyrus
>> (Which I use on RH9) but it should make the conversion pretty simple.
>
> Hi John,
>
> I did find out about the mbox structure and I have actually already
> converted the emails. Not that I like the large mbox files but it turned
> out to be very easy to write a script to do it. It was more important
> for me to get on to Linux now than to wait for a more appropriate (and
> possibly difficult) conversion. Now I have amble time to find out how to
> convert from mbox to whatever is best. Is there a mail agent that would
> archive the messages in an sql data base or similar?
>
> BTW, thanks to all who have contributed with ideas for this conversion.
> --
> Regards,
> Erik P. Olsen

Eric,

I would suggest dbmail (dbmail.org). I use it to store about 700MB of email
in a mysql database. postgresql is supported also.

Look for the program 'raw-convertor' to convert mailboxes to dbmail sql.

ed

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