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Subject: Re: [9fans] Scaleable mail repositories.
From: "Fco. J. Ballesteros" <nemo@lsub.org>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:19:59 +0100
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:  And remember, whatever new scheme wins, it still has to be
:  able to read my 20+ years of mbox format messages too.

It can ;-), it's just a matter of converting them...

for (m in yourmboxes){
	mail2fs -d $home/mail/$m $m
}

I mean, I still use omail (~ acme's Mail) to read mboxes I did not
convert, and convert some of them to the dir hier. fmt. as I use them.
But IMHO, there is no problem with that.