On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Bron Gondwana <brong@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 05:45:25PM -0500, Jason Voorhees wrote: >> Hi people: >> >> I'm trying to create a script to copy "certain" messages from a >> mailbox of user A to mailbox of user B. These are the steps I have in >> mind: > > Wrong steps. That's not a good way to do it. > Well, I just based on the example shown in the cyrus documentation. It says that a message file recently copied it will no be visible until reconstruct command is executed. >> # mkdir /var/spool/imap/a/user/B/Recent >> # cd /var/spool/imap/a/user/A >> # cp 234. 235. 236. Drafts/12* /var/spool/imap/a/user/B/Recent >> # chown -R cyrus:mail /var/spool/imap/a/user/B/Recent >> # su cyrus -c '/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/reconstruct -r user/B' > > Use IMAP. > > a) Connect as an admin (with permissions on both user.A and user.B) > > b) CREATE user.B.Recent > > c) SELECT user.A > d) UID COPY 234,235,236 user.B.Recent > > e) SELECT user.A.Drafts > f) UID COPY 12:* user.B.Recent > > ------------ > > Much cleaner, and you get all the locking goodness of doing it the > RIGHT way. > > An alternative to being admin is just adding read ACLs for user > B on user A's folders (as user A), then logging in as user B and > doing these steps. > > You can use any IMAP client library. We use Perl Mail::ImapTalk, > but whatever language you're familiar with is fine. > > Bron. > Unfortunately, I know almost nothing about programming :( It doesn't seem a good idea to learn programming now just to solve this little issue. Anyway I know that programming is necessary to me so I'll learn as soon as I have enough free time. Thanks anyway people, I'll read about Perl::ImapTalk Bye ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
