How to Convert Maildir to MBOX With Easy Methods

In today’s era, every email client providing its best features to the users to store data and sharing data is the most common but to read the files in other different email clients is quite difficult. Therefore, to read these users want a file format which supported by email clients. MBOX is the file format that is accessible with any email client, but sometimes Maildir doesn’t support any client so due to these reasons we have to convert Maildir to MBOX to access the files.

Reasons to Convert Maildir to MBOX

• Here are some reasons by which we have to export Maildir to MBOX
• Maildir is sluggish when there is a need to access all data
• MBOX has more advanced features in comparison to Maildir
• MBOX also allows browsing old Maildir emails with the help of Thunderbird(MBOX) Linux Operating System
• When the users want to import their emails to Maildir cur folder in MBOX
• In the purpose of exporting the Mac users files to MBOX from the Windows Maildir

DIY Methods to Convert Maildir to MBOX

• Follow the steps to import the Maildir files to MBOX
• Firstly you have to download and install the Import/ExportTools3.1 Add-on in your downloaded Thunderbird
• After this, restart Thunderbird and then create a mailbox for import
• Choose the Mailbox
• Choose the Import/Export Tools then import Messages from the tools menu
• Now, move to All files option in the type of File Option
• Select files from the directory Maildir. Messages will normally be in your cur directory with the separate mailbox. The inbox will be the cur directory in the origin of the Maildir folder
• Click Open

Now, you are able to export Maildir to Mbox by the above steps. But with these manual method steps, you will be confused for a few minutes to perform two steps, import Maildir to MBOX then move that MBOX into Thunderbird. This will be a time-consuming process and can lose some data. So, don’t worry you can use the direct method as follows

Automated Method 

You can use the ShDataRescue Maildir converter tool that will import Maildir to MBOX. This Tool supports the Maildir files that are generated by postfix, Kmail, Mutt, Dovecot. By using this tool there not be any type of damage to the original files. This tool also offers the choice to remove all the duplicate email items.

Verdict!!

In this article, we provide you the solution to convert Maildir to MBOX. The conversion of Maildir to MBOX is quite difficult to perform manually. So, here we also provide a quick automated method for the conversion. We hope this could help you with a successful conversion.