mb2md - understanding directories and locations

wade at wadesmart.com wade at wadesmart.com
Tue Oct 31 01:17:53 UTC 2006


10302006 1908 GMT-6

I have made some backup directories of my mail and I have been
experimenting.

For those who understand what they are supposed to look like (maildirs),
after runing this command:
mb2md -s /current_file_location -d /new_file_destination -R
I have this:

/new_file_destination/
  /cur
  /new
  /tmp

  /.Business
    /cur
     /1162256029.000000.mbox:2,S

  /.Business_sbd.Awareness Life
    /cur
      /1162256082.000000.mbox:2,S


What Im getting at is, Im not sure I understand what Im supposed to be
seeing.
It seems that under some of this folders there are /cur with items it
them and under others, there isnt.
I had folders that I used to store mail in when I used Thunderbird and
then later in Evolution. Is this creating a /cur /new and /tmp under
each and every folder?

wade

10302006 1321 GMT-6

Im reading this http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/  about
converting mbox to maildir.
Some of the locations that it talks about where the program will look
doesn't fit with my system.
All the mail is in /home/user/.evolution/mail/local
Do I just point the source there instead of its normal routine?

wade





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