I simply wanted to convert my maildir from KMail to a standard mbox format, e.g. to be able to import it in Apple Mail, Mail.app under OS X. However, I found only complex scripts, none worked for me and I was about to start writing my own script until I found this very easy and neat solution from Christian Zagrodnick – works perfectly:

import sys
import email
from email.Errors import BoundaryError, HeaderParseError
from mailbox import Maildir
 
maildir = sys.argv[1]
 
md = Maildir(maildir, email.message_from_file)
 
while True:
    try:
        mail = md.next()
    except (BoundaryError, HeaderParseError):
        continue
    if mail is None:
        break
    print mail.as_string(True)

Call it via (“python scriptname.py pathToMailDirFolder > file.mbox“) and enjoy!

Thanks to Christian Zagrodnick who made this simple script available at:
http://www.gocept.com/Members/zagy/maildir2mbox/view?searchterm=maildir

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