I am trying to copy some plain old unix mailbox files into an imap server (cyrus), using mailutil.
After several successful operations, one append aborted with the message it had encountered a NUL (after having run for quite awhile). Any suggestions about how to proceed? The exercise has raised some background questions as well. First, each run seems to take quite awhile (5 minutes?), although the input files are somewhat big (c 64 MG for the one that bombed). During that time there is very little CPU use. My disk is a recent workstation-level SATA--nothing fancy for performance. Am I just stalled on the disk, or is this worth looking into (I have a lot more mailboxes to go)? Second, is there any way around the prompt for login each time the program runs? Third, it appears that none of the messages from the mailbox on which I got the error are in the IMAP server. Is that the expected behavior if there is an error? Does mailutil first look through the whole input mailbox before sending anything to the output? Finally, the documentation I can find is incomplete. For example, the man page for mailutil says "The arguments are standard c-client mailbox names" and then gives some examples. But I can't find any specification of what those names are (it says consult your system administrator, but that's me). The FAQ, for example, mentions /ssl or /tls arguments, but I can't even tell where they go (including whether they are part of the mailbox specification, which some of the material seems to suggest, or more general command line options). Maybe if I had a full UW IMAP server installation the information would be lying around, but I can't find it on my machine or the UW IMAP site. I'm running with the uw-mailutils Debian package, version 2002edebian1-13, on a 32 bit Debian GNU/Linux system. The old-style mailboxes are on a different system than the IMAP server, but I've been copying them over and decompressing them. As a result, mailutil is reading the old mailbox from the local disk and sending it the server on the same machine. Thanks for any help or pointers you can offer. Ross Boylan (I've downloaded the source, but haven't yet looked into it. I'm comfortable with a debugger, if that would help.) _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list [email protected] https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
