mbx support?

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Tue Dec 23 11:22:22 CET 2003


On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Gyepi SAM wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:42:07PM -0500, Eric Wood wrote:
> > WU-IMAP's "c-client" library may have all the code neccessary to handle mbx
> > files.
> 
> Indeed. A bit of investigation shows that there is a package called 'imap-utils',
> available here, ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imap/imap-utils.tar.Z which
> contains a program called 'mbxcvt' which can convert mailbox formats.

According to my mailutil(1) manual page, the mbxcvt has been replaced by
a multi-functional "mailutil" ("mailutil transfer" or "mailutil copy" or
something).

To convert a mbx file to traditional mailbox format, I'd type:

mailutil copy /full/path/to/some.mbx '#driver.unix//full/path/to/some.mbox'

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