How To Install mb2md on Fedora 34

mb2md is Mailbox to maildir converter

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mb2md on Fedora 34.

What is mb2md

Convert your emails folders in mailbox format to maildirs. Some of the current features of mb2md.pl are * converting the user’s main mailbox that is referenced by the $MAIL variable * converting a single mailbox into corresponding maildir * converting multiple mailboxes in a directory into corresponding maildirs * recursive operation on a given directory to convert the complete mail storage of one user * replaces all occurrences of dots (’.’) in a mailbox name by underscores (’_’) * is able to handle spaces in mailbox names * converts mbox files in DOS format (CRLF) to Unix file format * can strip an extension (e.g. “.mbx”) from a mailbox name prior to converting * removal of dummy message that a couple of IMAP servers (e.g. UW-IMAPD) put at the beginning of a mailbox * setting the file date of a converted message according to the date found in the “From " line of the original mail * setting the flags F,R,S,T (flagged, replied, seen, deleted) on the filename of the converted message according to the flags found in “Status original mail

We can use yum or dnf to install mb2md on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mb2md.

Install mb2md on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install mb2md using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mb2md

Install mb2md on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install mb2md using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mb2md

How To Uninstall mb2md on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the mb2md package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mb2md

mb2md Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/mb2md
/usr/share/doc/mb2md
/usr/share/doc/mb2md/changelog.txt
/usr/share/doc/mb2md/readme.txt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mb2md on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.