# convert Pegasusmail 3.12c Mailboxes to Unix (imap) Mailboxes # tested with Pmail 3.12c, but possible works with any Pmail 3+ versions # Author: Michiel Dethmers, michiel@***.co.uk # Copyright (C) 2000 Michiel Dethmers # License: GPL # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License # as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 # of the License, or (at your option) any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. # This perl script will convert your pegasus mailboxes *and trays* # to unix mbox format in an Imap tree. # # Situation: Suppose you use Pegasusmail on a work station that has # it's mailbox on a Linux server. Run this script in the folder that # contains your Pegasus folders and it will create a directory # structure which reflects the folder structure in Pegasusmail. You can # then run an Imap server on your Linux server and access your mail # with IMAP. A possible and good IMAP server is the one from the # Washington University, http://www.washington.edu/imap/ # # Alternatively, if you store your Pegasus mail folders somewhere # else, either mount it to your linux box with smbmount (on the like) # or copy it all across. # In default settings, it will create the first directory to be # "My Mailbox" which is the name Pegasusmail gives the top folder # that name will be different if you have renamed the top folder # # bugs/todo: # * I have a huge number of folders and trays in Pegasusmail, and it worked # for me. The one thing it didn't work on was when the size of a mailfolder # was very large, so I have put a restriction of 15Mb to the size # This is probably system dependent, my Linux box doesn't have that much # memory (32Mb) so it choked on Mailfolders larger than that. If you have # loads of memory, you can increase the size. # * The script is quite memory and processor demanding, and I may rewrite it # a bit to avoid that, if I find some time. # * It may break on invalid chars that you use for Folder names. Drop me a line # if it does. # Drop me a note if you think this was a useful script. # Credits: a small part of the code was taken from peg2eud.pl by # E. Heyns (heyns@*****.deMon.nl) (sub write_message)
Question: Why would I want to use this script?
Answer: I don't know, I used it, but you have to figure out for yourself whether you need it.