Trying to convert .mbox mail to something I can use

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Posted by 13Gigatons, 06-21-2007, 04:22 AM
I have 465 emails in .mbox format: 1180056800.000448.mbox_2,S and inside: I tried aid4mail but it doesn't recognize the format. Last edited by sirius; 06-23-2007 at 11:03 AM.
Posted by johnny-l, 06-21-2007, 06:01 AM
1) You shouldn't publish an email address of someone else on a forum (the verizon one), for privacy and because several bots harvest forums to search email to spam. Don't know about the Usa, but in my country is even against the laws. 2) If you have 465 different files named like that one, your email is in the "Maildir" unix imap format, as opposite to the "unix mbox" format that stores all the 465 emails in a single file. Maybe knowing the "name of the format" will help you finding a better program to convert that email. Said that, don't know anything about windows tools, but a simple solution if you have access to a unix server, a vps, even a shell account should suffice, you could do an archive of those 465 files, and decompress them inside a /home/33user/Maildir/Cur/ folder , run a standalone imap daemon like Dovecot, then connect to that server, with the 33user, and you have all your mail in an imap folder. Done that, you just have to move all that email in your local outlook/thunderbird/whatever folders, or inside another existing imap account. 3) I think this issue should go in the "Technical Forum". Not here.
Posted by 13Gigatons, 06-23-2007, 07:30 AM
Thanks for the reply. I just kept trying different formats with aid4mail when maildir worked correctly so I used that. I don't know why it says mbox on the end. I wish the mail formats were better defined and better better named.
Posted by atexit8, 06-23-2007, 10:58 AM
Please ask a mod to remove that email address. It is unfair to that person unless it is you. Irresponsible for you to put someone else's email in public like that.
Posted by sirius, 06-23-2007, 11:03 AM
Moved to Technical and Security Issues.... Sirius
Posted by SparkJim, 06-23-2007, 11:41 AM
Which OS and control panel you are currently using ? Also specify the mailserver and its version.