Coverter QMAIL - Dovecot Mailbox to MBOX Apple format

Convert Dovecot Mail / QMail mail box to APPLE MBOX format so you can import and continue using it in your favorite program.

Install

Python version: 3.12.3

It is recommended to create a virtual environment

virtualenv ./venv && . ./venv/bin/activate

or

python -m venv venv and for activate it just run . ./venv/bin/activate

after that install dependencies with this command pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

In current folder run python md2mb.py [maildir_path] [mbox_path_and_filename]

Sample: python md2mb.py /var/qmail/<domain_name>/<user>/Mailbox /home/domina_converted_file

After completing the conversion process you can import it into your favorite program.

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Mail box / QMAIL folder structure

<Domain>
    |-<Username>
        |-@attachments
        |-Maildir
            |-.Spam
            |-...
            |-cur
            |-tmp
            |-new
            |-...
            

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Credits

Important

This code has been modified, previously the previous authors are:

• Frédéric Grosshans, 19 January 2012 (https://gist.github.com/lftbrts/249f034a439d3eb2e008f73506cacc2d)
• Nathan R. Yergler, 6 June 2010

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Contribute

If you want to contribute you can always make a comment or make a pull-request, changes will be valued.

In case of an error you can also open an issue HERE.

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