lib/PublicInbox/LeiConvert.pm | 1 +
 xt/net_writer-imap.t          | 7 +++++++

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/LeiConvert.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/LeiConvert.pm
index 68fc7c0ba2b0b2932784e5d00bb7602e896a2071..424eab8e22e2d97a4738c88efd60a6c31b218980 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/LeiConvert.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/LeiConvert.pm
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ 		$lei->fail("output not specified or is not a mail destination");
 	my $devfd = $lei->path_to_fd($ovv->{dst}) // return;
 	$lei->{opt}->{augment} = 1 if $devfd < 0;
 	$self->prepare_inputs($lei, \@inputs) or return;
+	# n.b. {net} {auth} is handled by l2m worker
 	my ($op_c, $ops) = $lei->workers_start($self, 1);
 	$lei->{wq1} = $self;
 	$self->wq_io_do('process_inputs', []);
diff --git a/xt/net_writer-imap.t b/xt/net_writer-imap.t
index afa4bcc3e8817bcd31f0c88ebe18378b0b41fbc3..333e0e3b7ee0a7de2eb5c6617fb7eba50bed5ba9 100644
--- a/xt/net_writer-imap.t
+++ b/xt/net_writer-imap.t
@@ -137,6 +137,13 @@ 	is(scalar(@$res), 1, 'got one deduped result') or diag explain($res);
 	is_deeply($res->[0]->[1], $plack_qp_eml,
 			'lei q wrote expected result');
 
+	my $mdir = "$ENV{HOME}/t.mdir";
+	lei_ok 'convert', $folder_url, '-o', $mdir;
+	my @mdfiles = glob("$mdir/*/*");
+	is(scalar(@mdfiles), 1, '1 message from IMAP => Maildir conversion');
+	is_deeply(eml_load($mdfiles[0]), $plack_qp_eml,
+		'conversion from IMAP to Maildir');
+
 	lei_ok qw(q f:matz -a -o), $folder_url;
 	$nwr->imap_each($folder_uri, $imap_slurp_all, my $aug = []);
 	is(scalar(@$aug), 2, '2 results after augment') or diag explain($aug);