Re: Importing an mbox into Imap

2010-05-29 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 18:34 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: > > I'm sure he wouldn't mind sharing the script if you're interested, > but > > it is specific to Cyrus. > > > > poc > > > > > > Ok, just to be clear... does it resubmit the messages via IMAP for > delivery? It runs directly on t

Re: Importing an mbox into Imap

2010-05-29 Thread Philip Prindeville
On 5/25/10 9:16 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 10:10 +0930, Tim wrote: > >> On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 14:38 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> >>> Just import the mbox file into any IMAP client (Thunderbird, >>> Evolution, Claws, whatever ...) >>> >> I've tri

Re: Importing an mbox into Imap

2010-05-25 Thread Genes MailLists
On 05/25/2010 05:41 AM, Tim wrote: >> You may have to build the indexes after the files are moved. > > Hmm, the sort of thing I was hoping to avoid. If I used a mail client > to move the mail, it'd move the messages in a manner that was directly > usable, straight away. Rather than play games d

Re: Importing an mbox into Imap

2010-05-25 Thread Nataraj
Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 23:49 -0700, Nataraj wrote: > >> If it's your own mail server and your running an imap server like >> dovecot which uses maildir format, then just use the dovecot script to >> convert your mbox file directly into the file space of the imap >> server. >> >

Re: Importing an mbox into Imap

2010-05-25 Thread Tim
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

Re: Importing an mbox into Imap

2010-05-25 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 10:10 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 14:38 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Just import the mbox file into any IMAP client (Thunderbird, > > Evolution, Claws, whatever ...) > > I've tried this with fairly large spool files, on Evolution (painfully > slow, and

Re: Importing an mbox into Imap

2010-05-25 Thread Tim
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 01:06 -0500, Gabriel Ramirez wrote: > so it's more a year of Fedora mails, in a file, Most definitely. There's a few other big ones, but none are nearly as big as that one. > I has the same problem tens of thousands emails, I evaluate mbox, vs > maildir, decided keep with m

Re: Importing an mbox into Imap

2010-05-25 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 23:49 -0700, Nataraj wrote: > If it's your own mail server and your running an imap server like > dovecot which uses maildir format, then just use the dovecot script to > convert your mbox file directly into the file space of the imap > server. I am, though don't know the sc

Re: Importing an mbox into Imap

2010-05-24 Thread Nataraj
Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 14:38 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> Just import the mbox file into any IMAP client (Thunderbird, >> Evolution, Claws, whatever ...) >> > > I've tried this with fairly large spool files, on Evolution (painfully > slow, and needs doing in chunks - s

Re: Importing an mbox into Imap

2010-05-24 Thread Gabriel Ramirez
On 05/24/2010 07:40 PM, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 14:38 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> Just import the mbox file into any IMAP client (Thunderbird, >> Evolution, Claws, whatever ...) > > I've tried this with fairly large spool files, on Evolution (painfully > slow, and needs doing in

Re: Importing an mbox into Imap

2010-05-24 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 14:38 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Just import the mbox file into any IMAP client (Thunderbird, > Evolution, Claws, whatever ...) I've tried this with fairly large spool files, on Evolution (painfully slow, and needs doing in chunks - select a month's mail, drag and dr

Re: Importing an mbox into Imap

2010-05-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 11:59 -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: > I have an archived rmail-style "mbox" that I want to move into my Imap > message store. > > Anyone have a Perl script that will read an mbox, split it into > individual messages, and then redeliver those messages via an Imap > conne

Re: Importing an mbox into Imap

2010-05-24 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Frantisek Hanzlik wrote: > Philip Prindeville wrote: >> I have an archived rmail-style "mbox" that I want to move into my Imap >> message store. >> >> Anyone have a Perl script that will read an mbox, split it into >> individual messages, and then redeliver those messages via an Imap >> connection?

Re: Importing an mbox into Imap

2010-05-24 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 24 May 2010 11:59:48 -0600 Philip Prindeville wrote: > Anyone have a Perl script that will read an mbox, split it into > individual messages, and then redeliver those messages via an Imap > connection? I don't know about perl, but I clearly remember importing giant mbox files into my im

Re: Importing an mbox into Imap

2010-05-24 Thread Frantisek Hanzlik
Philip Prindeville wrote: > I have an archived rmail-style "mbox" that I want to move into my Imap > message store. > > Anyone have a Perl script that will read an mbox, split it into > individual messages, and then redeliver those messages via an Imap > connection? > > Thanks, > > -Philip In dove

Importing an mbox into Imap

2010-05-24 Thread Philip Prindeville
I have an archived rmail-style "mbox" that I want to move into my Imap message store. Anyone have a Perl script that will read an mbox, split it into individual messages, and then redeliver those messages via an Imap connection? Thanks, -Philip -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraprojec