I wrote this =up in a blog post for reference:

https://rmkrug.wordpress.com/2015/03/26/convert-multiple-mbox-files-into-a-maildir/

Cheers,

Rainer


Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:

> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
>
>> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I have downloaded archives from a mailing list (in mbox format) and
>>> would like to import them into gnus.
>>
>> OK - I converted them into maildir format and now I will put them into
>> dovecot.
>
> OK - solved it.
>
> Here my solution:
>
> ,----
> | 1) I downloaded a script is from
> |    [[https://github.com/igor47/mailtools/blob/master/mbox2maildir.py]] and
> |    named it =conv.pl=
> | 
> | 2) I run it together with =find= to iterate through all mbox files
> |   
> |    mkdir ./Maildir
> |    find . -name "MATCHING_THE_MBOX_FILES" -exec ./conv.pl {} ./Maildir/ \;
> |
> | 
> | 3) The files are created in =./Maildir/new=. 
> | 
> | 4) I then moved them to my maildir used by dovecot
> | 
> | mv ./Maildir/new ~/Maildir/TARGETFOLDER/new
> `----
>
> And in gnus they showed op as new mails in the maildir.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rainer
>
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>>>
>>> Is there any way that I can do this from gnus?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Rainer

-- 
Rainer M. Krug
email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de
PGP: 0x0F52F982