[Pan-users] How to Upgrade your Folders for 0.12.90

[Charles Kerr]

Pan 0.12.90 folders store one message per file, rather than all
messages in an inbox file, for reasons similar to those in
http://www.qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man5/maildir.html.
That's why 0.12.90 users are reporting that their folders
aren't showing up.

Here are the steps to upgrading your folders to 0.12.90:

  1. Get the upgrade software.

     (~): mkdir /tmp/foo
     (~): cd /tmp/foo
     (/tmp/foo): wget http://untroubled.org/mbox2maildir
     (/tmp/foo): chmod 755 mbox2maildir

  2. Upgrade the folders -- repeat this step once per folder.

     (/tmp/foo): mkdir ~/.pan/messages/folders/pan.sent
     (/tmp/foo): mkdir tmp
     (/tmp/foo): ./mbox2maildir ~/.pan/folders/pan.sent.mbox tmp
     (/tmp/foo): mv tmp/*/* ~/.pan/messages/folders/pan.sent/
     (/tmp/foo): rm -rv tmp

cheers,
Charles