On 16Oct2020 20:40, Ranjan Maitra <maitra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >So, in this code, there is a command called ismhdir -- where does this come from? Is there something missing here? (I think it also shows up in your newer code.)
>>
>> Oh, there's probably a few of my scripts in that one. They're all
>> available from the same URL (go up to the bin/ URL). Or I can ship you a
>> tarball or you can clone the repo, whatever you find easy.
>
>No, thanks, I got it. Wow, you have a lot of scripts: some more may be useful.
>
>So, I tried your code:
>
> cd ~/mail
> for mhdir in [a-z]*; do (set -x; mh2maildir "$mhdir") || break; done
>
>But it only did the first folder and quit: I was thinking that it would go through the whole list of folders and sub-folders.
The above for-loop quits if mh2maildir exits nonzero (some error). That
way I get to debug without frying every following folder. Or digging the
error output of a lot of other successful output.
>I did get the following warning:
>
>procmail: Couldn't chdir to ""
>
>However, it appended the hostname. I looked at the script, but I could not figure out where this comes in from: is it the default in the procmail?
Maybe you have no $MAILDIR envvar? Just guessing. That is an old script,
and doesn't abort on unset envvars like my recent ones do.
The script writes a procmailrc file like this:
MAILDIR=$MAILDIR
DEFAULT=$mhdir/
LOGFILE=$LOGDIR/procmail
I presume procmail expects $MAILDIR to exist?
Invoke the script like this:
sh -uex /path/to/mh2maildir your-mh-folder
and see what the output looks like. That will show you what is happening
in more detail.
>Perhaps I should try the newer version, but am a little confused with how to make it convert the mh to mhdir?
>
>Do I simply set set mbox_type=maildir in my .muttrc?
Nah, it isn't using mutt. It sets $DEFAULT to $mhdir/, and that trailing
slash says to treat $mhdir as a Maildir.
The script moves the original MH folder to $mhdir-mh and makes an empty
$mhdir to be the new Maildir. It looks like it expected procmail to make
the tmp/new/cur subdirs.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx>
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