mail conversion

[Tim Wunder]

On 4/19/2004 1:31 PM, I believe that Net Llama! wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Vu Pham wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I need to convert all emails of a POP3 account to separate flat files. I can
>>either ssh to that mail host or connect to that host to pop3 connection. Is
>>there any simple way to do that ?
>>
>>I can write a client program to read each email thru a tcp connection, but I
>>think it is overkill for this purpose.
> 
> 
> You mean you need each individual email placed into a distinct file?
> 

Isn't that what Maildir format is?

There's an mbox to Maildir conversion program here:
http://www.gerg.ca/hacks/mb2md/

Warning! I've never used it, nor do I endorse it. Google found it, and 
it looks like it'd do the trick.

Tim