Hi! You said: > mailbox2dbmail is especially suited for quickly migrating trees of mailboxes. > For single mailbox migration you don't need it.
I tought I had to migrate folder by folder! In the mailbox2dbmail are no instructions on how to migrate trees of mailboxes... How do you do that? Cheers! Lorna. On 4/17/05, Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lorna, > > If you're simply trying to migrate single mbox type mailboxes, you could just > as > easily try the good-old formail route: > > cat /var/mail/user | formail -ds /usr/local/sbin/dbmail-smtp -u user -m Inbox > > Formail is very robust and fast, and even if there's some really goofy message > in that mailbox, formail will probably recover and simply skip that message. > > mailbox2dbmail is especially suited for quickly migrating trees of mailboxes. > For single mailbox migration you don't need it. > > Still, it should ideally be useful even in your case, so this really does > indicate a bug in mailbox2dbmail. Just not an urgent one. The whole import > route > as such leaves plenty of room for serious improvement. But then even a > modicum > of a functional export route is total vaporware at the moment. > > If you do find out what tripping mailbox2dbmail, please do share by filing a > bug. If I can replicate your problem it will be fixed. > > > Lorna Sanchez M. wrote: > > Hello! > > > > A friend and I are using dbmail, and we have to migrate HUGE inboxes, > > around 1GB each. We used the mailbox2dbmail with success to migrate > > other accouts below 600M but for accounts above or so, we have the > > "Error parsing mail" error. > > The curious thing is that we get that error around the 10,000 or > > 11,000 line (each one of us is migrating a different HUGE inbox). > > > > Is there a problem with insertions in mysql? Does mysql has a limit? > > I'm not convinced that my inbox file has a problem. > > > > This is the line I'm using: > > ./mailbox2dbmail -u user -t mbox -m /var/mail/user -b Inbox -p > > /usr/local/sbin/dbmail-smtp > > > > Thanks a lot for the help! > > > > Lorna. > > _______________________________________________ > > Dbmail mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail > > > > -- > ________________________________________________________________ > Paul Stevens mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > NET FACILITIES GROUP PGP: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl >
