Can someone help me understand number 6 from
http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/mixfmt.txt.html

I am converting from mbx to mix so I was looking at using mailutil copy to
create the mix file. The following sentences seem to conflict with each
other. "A multi-message copy or append is written into its entirety to a
single new message file.  In the case of multi-copy, the new message file is
switched when the sum of the sizes of all messages to be copied would cause
the current new message file to exceed MIXDATAROLL." 

If a multi-copy is written in entirety to a new file then what does the
second sentence mean?

What does "only the first message is considered" mean in the last sentence?

Is there way of converting a large mbx file into a set of smaller mix files?
Does even make sense to do this because all future messages with use the
MIXDATAROLL value?

6. Message data file file roll out strategy

The current new message file is finalized, and a new one started, when
an append or copy is done that would cause the file to grow to larger
than a preconfigured size (MIXDATAROLL).  A multi-message copy or
append is written into its entirety to a single new message file.  In
the case of multi-copy, the new message file is switched when the sum
of the sizes of all messages to be copied would cause the current new
message file to exceed MIXDATAROLL.  In the case of multi-append, only
the first message is considered; this is due to technical limitations.



-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Mark Crispin
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 12:22 AM
To: David Morsberger
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Imap-uw] IMAP Failure

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, David Morsberger wrote:
> I am in the process of testing imap-2007. Is the preferred / recommended
> build?

Yes.  This is the current release version.  If you want to be 
adverturesome, try the imap-2007a development version.

> What is the best way to change the mail location? Currently mail is stored
> in the ~/Library/Mail/IMAP directory on my Leopard server. This is where
> Mailsever started saving it. I am looking at the "set mail-subdirectory
> ~/Library/Mail/IMAP" command in the /etc/c-client.cf file.

"set mail-subdirectory Library/Mail/IMAP" (no "~/" prefix).

Better will be to edit imap-2007/src/osdep/unix to change the definition 
of the mailsubdir variable.  I recommend against using /etc/c-client.cf

-- Mark --

http://staff.washington.edu/mrc
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Si vis pacem, para bellum.


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