mail conversion

[James McDonald]

Vu Pham wrote:

>----- 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
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>>On 4/19/2004 1:31 PM, I believe that Net Llama! wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Vu Pham wrote:
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>>>>Hi all,
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>>>>I need to convert all emails of a POP3 account to separate flat files. I
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>>>>either ssh to that mail host or connect to that host to pop3 connection.
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>>>>there any simple way to do that ?
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>>>>I can write a client program to read each email thru a tcp connection,
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>>>>think it is overkill for this purpose.
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>>>You mean you need each individual email placed into a distinct file?
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>>Isn't that what Maildir format is?
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>>There's an mbox to Maildir conversion program here:
>>http://www.gerg.ca/hacks/mb2md/
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>>Warning! I've never used it, nor do I endorse it. Google found it, and
>>it looks like it'd do the trick.
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>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.
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>Vu
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Talk about breadth of experience on this list I couldn't write a 'simple 
pop3 client' if my life dependended on it.... (well maybe but you get 
what I mean)