Import mails from evolution client to thunderbird

#!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """ Frédéric Grosshans, 19 January 2012 Nathan R. Yergler, 6 June 2010 This file does not contain sufficient creative expression to invoke assertion of copyright. No warranty is expressed or implied; use at your own risk. --- Uses Python's included mailbox library to convert mail archives from maildir [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maildir] to mbox [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox] format, icluding subfolder. See http://docs.python.org/library/mailbox.html#mailbox.Mailbox for full documentation on this library. --- To run, save as md2mb.py and run: $ python md2mb.py [maildir_path] [mbox_filename] [maildir_path] should be the the path to the actual maildir (containing new, cur, tmp, and the subfolders, which are hidden directories with names like .subfolde.subsubfolder.subsubsbfolder); [mbox_filename] will be newly created, as well as a [mbox_filename].sbd the directory. """ import mailbox import sys import email import os def maildir2mailbox(maildirname, mboxfilename): """ slightly adapted from maildir2mbox.py, Nathan R. Yergler, 6 June 2010 http://yergler.net/blog/2010/06/06/batteries-included-or-maildir-to-mbox-again/ """ # open the existing maildir and the target mbox file maildir = mailbox.Maildir(maildirname, email.message_from_file) mbox = mailbox.mbox(mboxfilename) # lock the mbox mbox.lock() # iterate over messages in the maildir and add to the mbox for msg in maildir: mbox.add(msg) # close and unlock mbox.close() maildir.close() #Creates the main mailbox dirname=sys.argv[-2] mboxname=sys.argv[-1] print(dirname +' -> ' +mboxname) mboxdirname=mboxname+'.sbd' maildir2mailbox(dirname,mboxname) if not os.path.exists(mboxdirname): os.makedirs(mboxdirname) listofdirs=[dn for dn in os.walk(dirname).next()[1] if dn not in ['new', 'cur', 'tmp']] for curfold in listofdirs: curlist=[mboxname]+curfold.split('.') curpath=os.path.join(*[dn+'.sbd' for dn in curlist if dn]) if not os.path.exists(curpath): os.makedirs(curpath) print('| ' +curfold +' -> '+curpath[:-4]) maildir2mailbox(os.path.join(dirname,curfold),curpath[:-4]) print('Done')