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57 Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal@jhu.edu> writes:
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59 > I didn't need to convert when I started using notmuch, but for past
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60 > mbox-to-maildir conversions, I always had the most confidence in using
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61 > mutt interactively. Tag all messages (S-t, all), copy or save to a
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62 > maildir, and make sure your mbox_type is set appropriately. There are
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63 > scripts out there to automate it, but if you're worried about missing
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64 > something, doing it by hand might work a bit better for you. (You can
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65 > also do it in chunks by date to make sure everything is moving over.)
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66 > Not the most efficient, but you should only have to do it once.
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68 Thanks - will give it a try. It half solves my problem, in that I can do
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69 a message count using mutt before and after to see the conversion went
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70 well. The second issue is figuring out if notmuch really did index all
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71 of them - challenging because I have plenty of dupes. I may just have to
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72 take it all on faith for now.
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74 As I had mentioned, when using going from MH to notmuch, it complained
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75 for about 20 messages. I was in a hurry so didn't take a detailed look,
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76 but two of them were clearly corrupt in my mbox file. They had a from
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77 and virtually no other headers. So perhaps all the problems I'm having
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78 stem from corrupt messages in my mbox...
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