Thanks, Sam! On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 23:02:24 -0700 Samuel Sieb <sam...@sieb.net> wrote:
> On 10/15/20 10:15 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > Thanks very much for this. I have found a tool that can convert mh to > > mailbox: > > > > https://github.com/vuntz/mh2maildir/blob/master/mh2maildir > > > > It seems to work, but can not handle a second level of subfolders: brings > > them all out as individual folders at the first level, so Ihave to fix > > that. Also, I don't like the new folder names, seem too unnecessary for me. > > (I was expecting to the old MH folder names inside my Maildir.) Also, the > > mails get stored as something like: 1602799622.116065_21187.hostname:2, not > > sure if this is the recommended way that files are stored in the Maildir > > format. I was expecting to have something that I could have control over. > > > > I have to look into this some more. I am not sure if this is the standard > > way to store Maildir format messages. > > Maildir has all the folders at the top level with dots to indicate > subfolders. And that is also the standard filename format. > > > One aspect of MH that I have liked is that I pull mail on two machines > > (using fetchmail via a POP server) and they are assigned the same filenames > > (numbers). Then, if I use rsync with delete, I can delete the corresponding > > message in the remote machine if I have deleted it on my local machine. It > > has worked like a charm over the past 15 years (I would say). > > That sounds either amazingly risky or it's a one-way sync and what's the > point of having the email on the remote machine? So, yes, there is some element of risk involved, but I have been been able to manage that reasonably, I think. My bigger risk has been to accidentally delete an e-mail (myself), in which case, I go in and fix the .fetchids manually so that it can go fetch the e-mail again, and then life is seemingly well. As I said in the other response, the reason for how I set things up, and that has worked reasonably well, is that I read e-mail at work and home, but the work machine is the one that I consider to be reliably backed up. It is also bigger in terms of disk. So what happens is that I fetchmail with keep, process e-mail at work using sylpheed and then fire up my home machine (a laptop) and fetchmail with keep from the POP server and the rsync it down (including the .sylpheed_mark and .sylpheed_cache). Then I work on the home machine, continue to fetchmail process e-mails, etc with sylpheed and when I am done (before I hibernate), I rsync it all up before I go back to work, so that when I go to the other (work) machine, I have the same status as I left at home/work. Of course, I need to be careful and vigilant for the reasons you alluded to. Thanks again! Best wishes, Ranjan _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
