On Dec 6, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Michael Cashwell wrote:
On Dec 6, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Chris Devers wrote:
My hunch is that my launchd plist must be wrong, or isn't being
invoked correctly, but I've tried many different permutations of it
and it hasn't gotten me anywhere. Rather than post examples of all
the ones that aren't working, could someone (possibly off-list, if
you like)
suggest an example that works for Leopard?
The main steps are:
1: install a launchd plist so uw-imap thinks inetd is running it;
2: install a PAM configuration file and server cert for SSL;
3: build the oxp (meaning OS X PAM) target and install the binaries;
I'd done all these things under Tiger and my upgrade to Leopard was
very smooth. I don't recall having to change anything.
I've attached my uw-imaps notes below. I assume reasonably small
attachments are allowed on the list. If not I'll put it somewhere
and resend a link.
Happy to help further.
-Mike
<UW-notes.rtf>
That was wonderful, thank you. Much more help than I was hoping for,
and it worked perfectly.
I forgot about PAM in my email yesterday, but I'd actually copied that
over from my Tiger setup, and it didn't change. My guess is that the
launchd script must have been hoarked or something.
The only glitch from the process was a weird one -- I set things up,
did a test connection with Alpine using the imapd binary that Alpine
came with (which I'd already had in the right place to launch it), and
all my mail, new and old, was there in the inbox as expected. Great.
So I quit Alpine, built the new version with part of your patch,
copied it over, then re-tested with Alpine... and my inbox was empty.
Zeroed out. Nothing in /var/mail/cdevers. Hm. I suspect it happened
because I just copied over the binary without properly first halting &
relaunching the service, and in any case I had a backup, so it wasn't
that disruptive, but it was completely unexpected.
In any case, that's done, and I'm back in, so *thanks* :-)
So, while we're at it, I'd been putting off converting from MBOX to
MIX format, but this seems like a good time to make the cutover if
it's The New Way Forward. I've seen sporadic documentation on how to
convert an individual mailbox with mailutil, but is there a
recommended way to do this if you have a reasonably big hierarchy of
mail? I've got around a decade of mail in several dozen folders/mbox-
files, so a script to do this on an entire tree seems like the way to
go. Is it "mailutil transfer oldtree #driver.mix/newtree" or something
like that?
Thanks again.
--
Chris Devers
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