Topic: mbox mailbox format

[robf355]

Hi

I have just installed smeserver after suffering a major server failure, previously I was using suse. All of my old mailboxes were in mbox format (using sendmail/procmail/dovecot), is there a way to get smeserver to use the mbox format, as I have an enormous amount of archived mail folders. I tried converting a folder and copying the resultanr files to the ~/Maildir/archive but dovecot doesn't show any entries in each mailbox folder.
Any help would be appreciated
Regards
Rob

[CharlieBrady]

Google 'convert mbox to maildir'.

Your easiest option is probably to use Thunderbird and open the mbox file and open an imap folder and copy all the messages from the box file to the imap folder.

[mmccarn]

If your old server functions well enough to access the email over imap you could copy it from the old to the new server using imapsync.

[robf355]

Thanks for the replies, I ended up copying the mbox files to another linux box and installing dovecot using mbox format and then set two mail accounts up on a thunderbird client machine and copying between folders, very time consuming but got there in the end!