mail conversion

[Vu Pham]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Wunder" <tim at thewunders.org>
To: <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: mail conversion


> 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.
>

Thanks Tim. I think it's a good tool but it requires me to install a lot of
things. I just wrote a simple pop3 client that extracts and writes each
email as separate files.

Vu