[TriLUG] Mailbox - Maildir mess

[Rick DeNatale]

On 8/1/05, Joseph Tate <dragonstrider at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does formail do what you are asking?  At the very least you could use
> formail to redeliver all the mail in your spool file.
> 

Well what I did was a fairly straightforward hack to mb2md to not
create the maildirs but just use the existing ones.

It in turn does use formail (or reformail) along with a perl script
called addtomaildir which handles delivering a single email.

The only glitch I had was that I botched changing the resulting
permissions to give access to dovecot. When I looked at my email with
Thunderbird, dovecot told it that the email was there but served up
blank info for TBird's e-mail list. When I fixed the permissions, I
couldn't figure out how to get TBird to refresh the list, but I could
still click on the list items and see the email contents, so I could
delete all the spam emails.  I brought dovecot down and made sure that
I got the permissions correct before turning it back on again after
getting $wifes email.

So I think that everything is hunkey dorey now.