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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 42537] conversion between mbox and maildir folders
From:       Tristan Miller <psychonaut () nothingisreal ! com>
Date:       2006-05-03 5:57:35
Message-ID: 20060503055735.4545.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From psychonaut nothingisreal com  2006-05-03 07:57 \
------- I just tried Martijn Klingens's suggestion of running a mbox2maildir \
conversion script directly on the KMail folders.  This didn't work; when I restarted \
KMail everything looked as normal (i.e., unread/total message count for the converted \
folder was as before, and the message list in the folder was normal), but when I \
actually clicked on a message to read it, I got a blank message, and the information \
in the message list for that message disappeared.  I suppose this is because the \
index files KMail creates depend on whether the folder is mbox or maildir.  Perhaps \
the solution is as simple as forcing KMail to rebuild the index files, but I have no \
idea how to do this.

I don't want to use the method Ingo Klöcker proposes because it's not automatic -- \
you still need to manually create a replacement folder for every folder to be \
converted and move the messages in.  This would take far too long for a user with a \
hundred folders; I'm amazed Ingo had the patience to do it with eighty.

If someone can provide a script to convert KMail mbox to maildir *fully* \
automatically, without loss of information, I'm willing to pay a bounty.  Get in \
touch with me and we can work something out.


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