[wellylug] Backing up maildirs

[Ewen McNeill]

In message <20030824111940.GD15558 at fake>, Richard Hector writes:
>Though it still seems useful to keep the creation times of the messages in
>the Maildir (ie the delivery time), which the conversion to mbox would
>presumably lose. Or does mbox format save the info somewhere else that could
>be recovered?

Probably depends on the maildir conversion tools; it could, eg, save it
in the (envelope/start-of-mbox-message) From header.

If it matters, tar, etc, could probably achieve the same job (making one
big file to transfer).

Ewen