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[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2018-12-13 23:15, Victor Sudakov wrote:

> I have over 400 mboxes in my ~/Mail directory, some of them being
> mailing list archives, others being Usenet groups archives, or mboxes
> inherited from my decommissioned CommuniGate server.
> 
> My dovecot configuration is simple: "mail_location = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/%u"
> 
> If I knew how to convert all this stuff to Maildir storage... Do I
> have to convert all of them at once?

No, mutt can handle maildirs and mboxes alongside each other.  It just
looks at what kind of file/directory it is dealing with at runtime.

For conversion, you can use formail -s together with some script that
will deliver to maildirs.  I can provide you with mine if you ask.
Also, something like

DEFAULT=/path/to/maildir/ procmail /dev/null

will work (but I try to avoid procmail for data-critical tasks).

Lastly, are you sure you need IMAP and dovecot at all?  Do you have
shell access to the server?

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