Thanks...

It works great now...

/Jonas
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andreas Aardal Hanssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Binc IMAP General" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: [binc] Converting mbox to maildir?


> On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Jonas Jonsson wrote:
> >Hi...
> >Gonna test mbox2maildir....
> >This is some of the mail in the INBOX dir
> >|-- new
> >|   |-- 1069233301.000000.mbox:2,S
> >|   |-- 1069233301.000001.mbox:2,S
> >|   |-- 1069233301.000002.mbox:2,S
> >|   |-- 1069233301.000003.mbox:2,RS
>
> Quoting http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html:
>
> "A unique name can be anything that doesn't contain a colon (or slash) and
> doesn't start with a dot."
>
> The entries that the mbox->Maildir conversion scripts created in new/
> contain colors, and they are therefore skipped by Binc IMAP. To recover
> from this, you should be able to safely move the messages from new/ to
> cur/ if cur/ is empty and there is no activity from qmail or other Maildir
> accessors. To be safe (for instance, if this is done in batch for several
> accounts), you should stop qmail, Binc IMAP and so on, before moving the
> messages over from new.
>
> As long as your MTA delivers new messages to the new Maildir, everything
> should go fine from here.
>
> Andy :-)
>
> --
> Andreas Aardal Hanssen   | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg
> Author of Binc IMAP      |  "It is better not to do something
> http://www.bincimap.org/ |        than to do it poorly."
>
>
>

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