On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 07:14:41PM +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote:
> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 19:14:41 +0100
> From: Jamie Paul Griffin <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: mbox to maildir with mb2md and mutt
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
>
> 1 - Have you 'thoroughly' read the man page for mb2md
I read, but perhaps I didn't understand everything ...
> 2 - what is the output of ls -a ~/Maildir
. .DEB.X08.yFy_gz .DEB.Y07.xMz_gz .MUTT.2008.vMAIz
.MUTT.2011.mutt-03-11 .OUTBOX.2011.outbox-01-11
.. .DEB.X08.yFz_gz .DEB.Y07.yFz_gz .MUTT.2008.wAVz
.MUTT.2011.mutt-04-11 .OUTBOX.2011.outbox-02-11
.abouvrages .DEB.X08.zJy_gz .DEB.Y07.zJy_gz .MUTT.2008.xMRz
.MUTT.2011.mutt-05-11 .OUTBOX.2011.outbox-03-11
.ACHATnet .DEB.X08.zJz_gz .DPN .MUTT.2008.yFy
.MUTT.2011.mutt-06-11 .OUTBOX.2011.outbox-05-11
.ACHATnet.camera .DEB.Y07 .ecoatterre .MUTT.2008.yFz
.MUTT.2011.mutt-07-11 .OUTBOX.2011.outbox-06-11
.ACHATnet.caravan .DEB.Y07.material .EDF .MUTT.2008.zJAz
.MUTT.2011.mutt-08-11 .OUTBOX.2011.outbox-07-11
.ANGLAIS .DEB.Y07.oDECx .emergency-inbox .MUTT.2009
.MUTT.2011.mutt-09-11 .OUTBOX.2011.outbox-09-11
.ATUTU .DEB.Y07.oDECy .FGR .MUTT.2009.rDECz
.MUTT.2011.mutt-10-11 .OUTBOX.2011.outbox-10-11
.BUG .DEB.Y07.oDECz .FREE .MUTT.2009.rNOVz
.MUTT.2011.mutt-11-11 .OUTBOX.2011.outbox-12-11
.clisp .DEB.Y07.pNOVy_gz .GNUTELLA .MUTT.2009.rOCTz
.MUTT.2011.mutt-12-11 .OUTBOX.2012
.clubMGEN .DEB.Y07.pNOVz_gz .GPbonnueil .MUTT.2009.rSEPTz
.MUTT.2012 .OUTBOX.2012.outbox-01-12
.COURRIER .DEB.Y07.prog .GROSFIHC .MUTT.2009.sAOUTz
.MUTT.2012.mutt-01-12 .OUTBOX.2012.outbox-02-12
.COURRIER.amisjp .DEB.Y07.prog.perl .LACENTRALE .MUTT.2009.tJUIz
.MUTT.2012.mutt-02-12 .OUTBOX.2012.outbox-03-12
.COURRIER.felicite .DEB.Y07.prog.shell .LangC .MUTT.2009.uJUNz
.MUTT.2012.mutt-03-12 .OUTBOX.2012.outbox-04-12
.COURRIER.gerard .DEB.Y07.qOCTx_gz .laptop .MUTT.2009.vMAIz
.MUTT.2012.mutt-04-12 .OUTBOX.2012.outbox-05-12
.COURRIER.kim .DEB.Y07.qOCTy_gz .LAPTOP .MUTT.2009.wAVRz
.MUTT.2012.mutt-05-12 .OUTBOX.2012.outbox-06-12
.COURRIER.nelson .DEB.Y07.qOCTz_gz .LAPTOP.zJ .MUTT.2009.xMARz
.MUTT.2012.mutt-06-12 .OUTBOX.2012.outbox-07-12
cur .DEB.Y07.rSEPz_gz .MAIF .MUTT.2009.yFz
.MUTT.2012.mutt-07-12 .OUTBOX.2012.outbox-08-12
.DEB .DEB.Y07.sAOw_gz .mbox .MUTT.2009.zJz
.MUTT.2012.mutt-08-12 .OUTBOX.2012.outbox-09-12
.DEB.X08 .DEB.Y07.sAOx_gz MUTT .MUTT.2010
.MUTT.2012.mutt-09-12 .OUTBOX.outbox
.DEB.X08.prog .DEB.Y07.sAOy_gz .MUTT
.MUTT.2010.mutt-01-10 new .OUTBOX.outbox4_bz2
.DEB.X08.prog.shell .DEB.Y07.sAOz_gz .MUTT.2007
.MUTT.2010.mutt-02-10 .NNX .OUTBOX.outbox_bz2
.DEB.X08.rSy .DEB.Y07.tJIy_gz .MUTT.2007.yDz
.MUTT.2010.mutt-03-10 .OUTBOX .postponed
.DEB.X08.rSz .DEB.Y07.tJIz_gz .MUTT.2007.zNz
.MUTT.2010.mutt-07-10 .OUTBOX.2007 .procmail.log
.DEB.X08.sAOy .DEB.Y07.uJNy_gz .MUTT.2008
.MUTT.2010.mutt-08-10 .OUTBOX.2007.outbox-01-07 .RACHIS
.DEB.X08.sAOz .DEB.Y07.uJNz .MUTT.2008.oNz
.MUTT.2010.mutt-09-10 .OUTBOX.2007.outbox-02-07 .sbcl
.DEB.X08.tJTz .DEB.Y07.vMIy_gz .MUTT.2008.pNz
.MUTT.2010.mutt-10-10 .OUTBOX.2010 .SNES
.DEB.X08.uJNz .DEB.Y07.vMIz_gz .MUTT.2008.qOz
.MUTT.2010.mutt-11-10 .OUTBOX.2010.outbox-09-10 tmp
.DEB.X08.vMAIz .DEB.Y07.wAVy_gz .MUTT.2008.rSz
.MUTT.2010.mutt-12-10 .OUTBOX.2010.outbox-10-10
.DEB.X08.wAVy .DEB.Y07.wAVz_gz .MUTT.2008.sAOz .MUTT.2011
.OUTBOX.2010.outbox-11-10
.DEB.X08.wAVz .DEB.Y07.xMx_gz .MUTT.2008.tJTz
.MUTT.2011.mutt-01-11 .OUTBOX.2010.outbox-12-10
.DEB.X08.xMz .DEB.Y07.xMy_gz .MUTT.2008.uJNz
.MUTT.2011.mutt-02-11 .OUTBOX.2011
> 3 - what was the command you used to create the Maildirs with mb2md
mb2md -s ~/Mail -R
> mb2md -m creates the directory ~/Maildir and sub-directory's {cur,new,tmp} -
> all messages in /var/[spool]/mail/$user
> are then seperated into files and placed in ~/Maildir/cur. This means that
> ~/Maildir is now your spoolfile.
I did not do "mb2md -m" because my /var/mail/$user is empty; my .procmailrc is
like this:
PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:.
# For system mbox
# MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail
# DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/mbox
# For system maildir
MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir # You would better make sure it exists
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/.mbox
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/.procmail.log
LOCKFILE=$HOME/.lockmail
ORGMAIL=$MAILDIR/.emergency-inbox
..................................
So I did: mb2md-s ~/Mail/mbox -d ~/Maildir, instead of mb2md -m
> If you have mail in mbox format localted at ~/Mail you then should run:
>
> mb2md -s ~/Mail -R
Yes I did that.
> That will recusively create Maildirs for all directories in ~/Mail and puts
> them into ~/Maildir;
> ~/Maildir is the top level directory, all mboxes will appear in ~/Maildir as
> new Maildir style mail storage.
>
> Because you have set $spoolfile to be ~/Maildir.mbox it is not seeing the
> mail you had in your
> /var/[spool]/mail/$user mbox. $folder should be ~/Maildir; $spoolfile should
> be ~/Maildir/;
Yes and now with : set spoolfile="~/Maildir/" when I run mutt, I see my
last messages non sorted by procmail and if I press the keys c and ? I see
the contents of ~/Maildir. But there is yet a problem : if I come back to
the parent directory .. and put the cursor on Maildir and I press Enter
I see my last mails (which are in ~/Maildir/.mbox/cur) ok, but now c and ? gives
me the content of /home/$user ! I can't access the contents of ~/Maildir
except by giving the path /home/$user/Maildir :(
I don't understand the origin of the problem ?
> $record should be +.OUTBOX.2012.m09, etc.. If you're moving mail for
> $spoolfile to $mbox, $mbox should be +.mbox.
>
> Also, the program is creating Maildir++ which uses '.' as seperators for
> directory's.
> As you have '.'s in you mailbox names this could be confusing things.
>
> You can easily create the Maildirs manually: mkdir -p ~/Maildir/{cur,new,tmp}
> and use
> the same command syntax to create all the directories you need. Then from
> within mutt,
> using its original mbox set up, tag and copy all mail from each folder to the
> respective
> Maildirs now located in ~/Maildir/whatever. mutt will see the new directories
> as Maildirs
> and store the mail correctly (i believe). Someone might have to confirm that.
Yes I will do that to create the tree structure of ~/Maildir which suits me.
But should I put a dot before the directories's name as does mb2md ?
(sorry in my previous post I wrote "point" instead of dot)
Thank you very much for the time you spent to understand my problem.
--
Gérard
