On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:18:11AM +0100, Tom Brown enlightened us: > I want to download all messages from an IMAP mailbox but i want this to > be outputted into MailDir format. I tried using fetchmail but this > outputted the mailbox into mbox format. Is there an IMAP client that > works on the command line but will output into MailDir format or failing > that how reliable is converting from mbox to MailDir ? > Fetchmail doesn't output mail at all. It delivers it by default to port 25 on your local machine. So, configure your MDA to deliver to Maildir and try again. The fetchmail man page holds quite a bit of information, you just have to look... Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263