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    Converting kmail mbox folders to kmail2 maildir folders

    I'm still working on recovering from the botched conversion from kmail to kmail2, which unfortunately did not preserve the original files. As a result, I've had to work on the file level, carefully going through the directory tree to fix things that are not right.

    A key tool is a good way to convert mbox files to maildir files, in a form that kmail2 accepts. Using Google I found many pointers to the Perl program mb2md, and tried using it. At first it seemed to be working, producing the correct lists of messages. But on further examination I found that it was screwing up: all the message bodies were empty even though a textual examination of the messages showed that the message bodies were there.

    I assume that something like this is built into the migrator, but is there a standalone program around for doing this conversion? Ideally, it would operate on a directory tree recursively as mb2md does.


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    Re: Converting kmail mbox folders to kmail2 maildir folders

    Have you tried manually importing the mbox file to kmail?

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      Manual import

      Thanks for the advice. I tried that once before without success, but I tried it again and this time I got it to work. I don't know what went wrong the last time.

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