Moving mail
Hi, Thought I'd tap into the collective whisdom to help solve this one. A few friends and I run a Linode VPS running Debian stable. We're using Postfix for our MTA, with virtual mailboxes in Maildir format. We offer Squirrelmail as one of our webmail platforms. Another friend has a website and Email system hosted on a Windows hosting platform. The Email uses a system called SmarterMail. Unfortunately, the web interface for SmarterMail has become more and more difficult for a blind person to use, and so we decided to move her Email from her server to ours. We're also looking at moving her site but it's currently written in Cold Fusion which could cause difficulties ... but I digress. The new mail has been showing up here for months, and everyone who uses her Email service is very happy with our hosting of her Email. What I want to do now is move the old remaining mail from the old site into the equivalent accounts on the new system. I'm thinking that I could do this using Fetchmail over an IMAP connection (SmarterMail supports IMAP4) and somehow deliver it to the new accounts. Or possibly use some other means to put it into appropriate Maildir folders. The latter would be better, as some of this mail is already saved into folders and it seems silly to require users to resave items to folders for storage when they're already saved like this. Any thoughts on how to achieve this? Unfortunately, this isn't a *nix system so I can't just log in and copy the files, I need to use Email protocols to get the mail and then do something with it, and I'm not really sure where to start. Thanks, Geoff. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Moving mail
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010, Moish wrote: Connect to the old mail system, download the messages to local storage, connect to the new system using imap and then move the mail from local folders to remote folders. I've done it with Thunderbird but any decent client would do it. I recall that there were tools to do it on the server, but why bother? Firstly, it's not my mail. Second, this has a feel of clunkiness about it. I'd prefer to be able to just move the data without any risk that some mail client is going to change the data in any way. I suppose I can resort to this if there's no other option. Geoff. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: Moving mail
On 23/09/2010 19:12, Geoff Shang wrote: Hi, Thought I'd tap into the collective whisdom to help solve this one. A few friends and I run a Linode VPS running Debian stable. We're using Postfix for our MTA, with virtual mailboxes in Maildir format. We offer Squirrelmail as one of our webmail platforms. Another friend has a website and Email system hosted on a Windows hosting platform. The Email uses a system called SmarterMail. Unfortunately, the web interface for SmarterMail has become more and more difficult for a blind person to use, and so we decided to move her Email from her server to ours. We're also looking at moving her site but it's currently written in Cold Fusion which could cause difficulties ... but I digress. The new mail has been showing up here for months, and everyone who uses her Email service is very happy with our hosting of her Email. What I want to do now is move the old remaining mail from the old site into the equivalent accounts on the new system. I'm thinking that I could do this using Fetchmail over an IMAP connection (SmarterMail supports IMAP4) and somehow deliver it to the new accounts. Or possibly use some other means to put it into appropriate Maildir folders. The latter would be better, as some of this mail is already saved into folders and it seems silly to require users to resave items to folders for storage when they're already saved like this. Any thoughts on how to achieve this? Unfortunately, this isn't a *nix system so I can't just log in and copy the files, I need to use Email protocols to get the mail and then do something with it, and I'm not really sure where to start. Thanks, Geoff. ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il Connect to the old mail system, download the messages to local storage, connect to the new system using imap and then move the mail from local folders to remote folders. I've done it with Thunderbird but any decent client would do it. I recall that there were tools to do it on the server, but why bother? Did I miss something ? -- Moish ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
Re: linux games for kids
2010/9/20 sara fink : > If I choose option 2, can you recommend names of games, how the kids liked > it, links if it's not too difficult. Hello,Sara. Using windows as only a gaming platform would be good that it will not be affected by virus.And,you can check this out[1],there are 24 games on GNU/Linux version for free.Some great historic PC games still can running on GNU/LInux such as quake,doom and unreal but probably not fit for 4-years old kids. btw:geeks have been looking for GNU/Linux games on slashdot[2] and another thread talk about bunch of commerical gams on GNU/Linux[3].Hope those infos can help~ [1]24 Extra Hot Free Linux Games http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20100425112203997/ExtraHotGames.html [2]Linux Games For Non-Gamers? http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/10/12/0134252/Linux-Games-For-Non-Gamers [3]42 of the Best Commercial Linux Games http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/14/194213 -- GNU powered it... GPL protect it... God blessing it... regards Shawn ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
