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[Victor Sudakov]

Ian Zimmerman 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.

I know mutt can, I doubt that dovecot can. 
>
>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).

May I ask why? procmail has been in my ~/.forward for two decades, 
with lots of rules, and I've not seen any problems from it.

>Lastly, are you sure you need IMAP and dovecot at all? 

Sure. First of all, other users need it, and I don't like the idea of 
personal settings for myself.

Then, I like to use a mobile app (AquaMail) for mail access when on 
the road.

> Do you have
>shell access to the server?

I do, that's where I use mutt for local access to mailboxes.

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