On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 10:46 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > I took the liberty of asking our mail admin about this, since I know > we've done it in the past. This is his answer: > > I wrote a very Cyrus-specific Perl script (which runs on > the mailstore server) that parsed an mbox file, split it into > individual messages, and handed them to Cyrus for storage. And > yes, it takes many hours (on a fast machine with fast disks) and > some babysitting. > > If he's not using Cyrus, or doesn't have access to the server, > tough luck... :-/ > > I'm sure he wouldn't mind sharing the script if you're interested, but > it is specific to Cyrus. I'm using Dovecot. Though, I'm wondering if it will be any advantage because of the difference in server, and: Is there an advantage in externally splitting an mbox spool and playing with files, compared to importing mail from one folder to another, and the mail server storing that mail in maildir, itself. I suspect there's a good chance of creating maildir files that don't fit in with the way the mailserver wants to have its maildir files (file paths, etc.). -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
