mail formats

[Daniel Robitaille]

> With a nice fresh install I have trouble importing mail (and contacts)
> from my old evolution folder. Specifically, the inbox which is not in
> mbox format but one of the others. Can't remember what it's called. The
> folder contains the subfolders with cur, new and tmp, each with
> individual files for the mails.

maildir

> I seem to remember there are tools to convert between formats but can't
> for the life of me remember their names, any tips?

personally I uses mutt to do conversions between mbox and maildir (and
the other way around).

Load one folder in mutt, select all the messages, and save them in a
new folder that uses the new format.

I could write a little "howto" document if you need more help.