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Conversion from mbox to maildir

mbox has one file per mailbox. I want to use the maildir format, so a conversion is needed.

# emerge TimeDate      <- this Perl module is needed

I will assume a dir structure like this:

mailconvert
|__ mboxes

# cd mailconvert
# wget http://home.uninet.ee/~ragnar/2md/2md-[newest version]
# chmod u+x 2md-[version]
# for mbox in `ls mboxes`; do mkdir -p maildir/$mbox && ./2md-[version] $mbox maildir/$mbox; done
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