On 16Oct2020 18:53, Ranjan Maitra <maitra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >Thanks very much for this! I will try it out, but it appears to be for individual folders, is that correct? So, I will maybe write a script to call it. >> >> Yes. I just wrote a for loop on the command line. Something like: >> >> cd ~/mail >> for mhdir in [a-z]*; do (set -x; mh2maildir "$mhdir") || break; done > >So, in this code, there is a command called ismhdir -- where does this come from? Is there something missing here? (I think it also shows up in your newer code.) Oh, there's probably a few of my scripts in that one. They're all available from the same URL (go up to the bin/ URL). Or I can ship you a tarball or you can clone the repo, whatever you find easy. >> Yep. But the conversion is pretty trivial. Mutt autodetects the folder >> type. If a file, mbox. If a dir with tmp,new,cur, a Maildir. Probably MH >> otherwise. >> >> So provided you _make_ an empty Maildir (mkdir $d $d/tmp $d/new $d/cur) >> mutt will deliver into it correctly - no special modes. You only need to >> instruct mutt when _it_ creates the mail folder, by setting: >> >> set mbox_type=maildir >> >> as your preference for new folders. > >My apologies, so my plan is to first get the change from MH to Maildir done and then start fetchmail/procmail to add to those folders after running it through sylfilter (which I package for Fedora) and then fire mutt up after that for reading/responding, etc. Of course, I am not sure if it is worthwhile to use sylfilter anymore given that it was integrated with sylpheed in the training but perhaps I can still keep that. (I will deal with that later.) You don't need to "switch to mutt" yet. You can still use it as a conversion tool :-) Keep the previous MH folder there until you're happy the Maildir is a faithful reproduction. >Yes, I can switch to getmail but I honestly don't know how much a learning curve that would be. Or are you recommending that I use getmail and then mutt on that (instead of procmail)? No obligation to switch to getmail, I was just describing the tools I use for content. >I see. I do have a lot of conditions set by procmail so would like to try to keep that if possible. Perhaps I will stick to procmail. But does procmail handle Maildir according to any recipe that has to be set: for instance, I clearly do not want the hostname in the filenames. Stick with procmail until unhappy with it. It will deliver to Maildirs, you change the form of the folder name. A trailing slash or something to indicate the format. [...digs around...] I think "folder" for mbox, "folder/" for Maildir, "folder/." for MH. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
