Convert Maildir to mbox

Question

Im changing hosts and i need to convert my maildir accounts on my old server to mbox on my new server.

Any ideas on the best way to do this?

I found this:

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Answer 1

If you have access to both servers via imap (or can temporarily arrange it), you might want to consider using an imapsync tool, eg:

http://freshmeat.net/projects/imapsync/

If that won't work, you should be able to ignore the dovecot files, but beware that you'll likely lose information like which messages are read and any flags set on the messages. (The imapsync method would preserve all those things.)