David Witbrodt wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if any email gurus are reading debian-user, and are > willing to share some advice? > > In the past, I used email client apps like Seamonkey to retrieve > email from my ISP's POP3 server. I tend to save a lot of emails, sorted > into directories based on who-was-the-sender or what-was-the-topic. > This has left me with a large number of text files -- I assume mbox > format -- on two old machines, which I used as my main desktop machine > in different eras. > I have already backed up those mbox files, but I just finished setting > up a home network with 3 machines -- one acting as smarthost for the > other two, and which connects to my ISP's SMTP server on behalf of all > the machines in my home network. The local smarthost is using exim4 > (with Maildirs) and courier-imap to make my email available to all of the > machines inmy network (regardless of which OS is running). > > My question is simple: is there a way I can give exim4 those mbox > files from the 2 old machines so that it will move each email into the > new Maildir setup, and without "sending" or forwarding them to the > new machine. (In other words, I would like to preserve the header > info in its current state.) >
If you exim4 is only a smart host, then it doesn't need to see these emails and doesn't care about them. What you probably want is courier-imap to see them. You'd need to convert them to Maildir format (there are tools available, such as mb2md) and put these Maildirs where courier-imap looks for them. -- BOFH excuse #345: Having to manually track the satellite. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br http://move.to/hpkb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
