Using maildir format in KMail

[Ingo Klöcker]

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Ladislav Strojil wrote:

> On Wednesday 03 April 2002 21:02, Timothy R Butler wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>   I just got my KDE 3 desktop going nicely, and I was thinking it
>>   might be
>> wise to switch to the nifty maildir format in KMail. The problem is
>> that I already have a lot of mail I want to keep that is in mbox
>> format. Is there an easy way to convert mbox mailboxes to maildir
>> directories?

This is question #2 in the KMail FAQ:
http://docs.kde.org/3.0/kdenetwork/kmail/faq.html#id2831713

> I did it by creating new folders and moving all the messages and then
> deleting the old folder.

This is the recommended way to do it (cf. the FAQ) because this will 
assure that all message flags are carried over correctly.

Using some external script as Mike suggested might lead to problems. You 
should at least compact all your folders before using an external 
script because else already deleted or duplicate messages might show up 
after conversion.

Regards,
Ingo

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