Information about the package, mb2md, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The mb2md package is designed for, Mailbox to maildir converter.
Package Name:
mb2md
Summary:
Mailbox to maildir converter
Description:
Convert your emails folders in mailbox format to maildirs. Some of the current features of mb2md.pl are: * converting the user's main mailbox that is referenced by the $MAIL variable * converting a single mailbox into corresponding maildir * converting multiple mailboxes in a directory into corresponding maildirs * recursive operation on a given directory to convert the complete mail storage of one user * replaces all occurrences of dots ('.') in a mailbox name by underscores ('_') * is able to handle spaces in mailbox names * converts mbox files in DOS format (CRLF) to Unix file format * can strip an extension (e.g. ".mbx") from a mailbox name prior to converting * removal of dummy message that a couple of IMAP servers (e.g. UW-IMAPD) put at the beginning of a mailbox * setting the file date of a converted message according to the date found in the "From " line of the original mail * setting the flags F,R,S,T (flagged, replied, seen, deleted) on the filename of the converted message according to the flags found in "Status:"/"X-Status:"/"X-Mozilla-Status:"/"X-Evolution:" headers of the original mail
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
3.20
Release:
5.el6
Size:
24 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
Public Domain
Control the mb2md package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install mb2md
This command will install mb2md on the server.
yum remove mb2md
This command will un-install mb2md on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mb2md, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove mb2md
This command will un-install mb2md on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove mb2md when using the -y flag.
yum update mb2md
This command will update mb2md to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove mb2md, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update mb2md
This command will update mb2md to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove mb2md when using the -y flag.
yum info mb2md
This command will show you core information about the mb2md package.
yum deplist mb2md
This command will show you the dependencies for mb2md. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update mb2md
This command will check if there is an update waiting on mb2md. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.