[vpostmaster] importing /spool/.../Maildir/cur/ into thunderbird

[Scott Kleihege]

Thunderbird does not support reading Maildir folders off of the local disk.

You will either need to convert from Maildir format to mbox format, or
setup an IMAP server that understands the Maildir format, and have
Thunderbird talk to it.

Here's a link to a blog that includes a python script that may help
converting from Maildir to mbox.  I haven't tried it out, your mileage
may vary.

   http://yergler.net/Maildir_to_Mbox

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:07:02PM -0400, Povilus, Samuel R wrote:
>Recently my mail server died and i had to switch to having gmail host my mail for me but i was able to recover the spool directory for my domain. i have found the message folder  /spool/.../Maildir/cur/  but when i set that as my local directory for Thunderbird it gets the sub folders, but the inbox shows up as a bunch of subfolders with nothing in them named the same things a the files that contain the messages on the disk, is there a way to get it so those messages show up as normal?

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