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 tried this with

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 the Cyrus

Re: Importing an mbox into Imap

2010-05-25 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 chunks

Re: Importing an mbox into Imap

2010-05-25 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 - select a

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

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

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 needs

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 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. I am,

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

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

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 dovecot RPM

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 imap

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? Thanks,

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 connection?

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