Hello everyone,

I used KDE on a Mandrake Platform back in 2005 for about a year, before Mandrake changed to Mandriva, and my computer crashed. I recently have recovered the email files from KMAIL that were from a POP account. They a directory with 3 sub-directories - CUR, TMP, and NEW. It is about 300 MB, fairly small, but a bunch of email from back in the day.

The files themselve have a variety of names. Let me paste a sample here:

1105444492_19708.JCNDU_2_S 7/3/2005 2:21 JCNDU_2_S File 33 KB
1105904505_5443.HOCXR_2_S 7/3/2005 2:21 HOCXR_2_S File 21 KB
1105904505_5443.RT4NJ_2_S 7/3/2005 2:21 RT4NJ_2_S File 56 KB

There are about 6000 files like this. I can open the ones up that don't have attachments in a text editor and read them, but for 300 MB this would be a ton of work.

I want to recover these email into a readable form, and let them join up with my larger email archive. How can I do this? I use Thunderbird these days, and like it as a software. My computer runs Windows 7. I can get access to an Ubuntu system as well.

Any suggestions? All the indexes and such appear to be intact. Is there a way to convert these all to eml files?

These files are in Maildir format. I'm fairly sure you can find something to convert maildir to emi (but as I'm not using Windows for mail, I can't tell if such a program actually exists).

Thanks. I'll take a look and post my results here.

Here's what I did. I grouped all of the old email files, like those listed above, and renamed them all as .eml files. I used the "ren" command in a window (DOS) terminal to rename them all. Then I used an import add-on in Thunderbird to bring them into Thunderbird, then I moved them over to an IMAP server for more permanent storage.

Thanks!