Thanks for your reply! Please, read below! On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 3:19 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote:
> [IDIS Technical Secretariat] Ricardo Rodríguez writes: > > Thanks Mark, all, > > > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 4:09 AM, Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> wrote: > > > > > On 08/28/2015 12:52 AM, [IDIS Technical Secretariat] Ricardo Rodríguez > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > I have a number of Maildir format mailing lists archives > > No, you don't have Maildir, at least not "Maildir" as most of the > Internet understands it. Here's what Dan Bernstein (the inventor or > at least popularizer of Maildir) says: > > Can a maildir contain more than tmp, new, cur? > > Yes: > .qmail: used to do direct deliveries with qmail-local. > bulletintime: empty file, used by system-wide bulletin programs. > bulletinlock: empty file, used by system-wide bulletin programs. > seriallock: empty file, used to serialize AutoTURN. > > > Ricardo-Rodriguezs-Mac-Pro:r.users rrodriguez$ ls > > Log bounce digissue headerremove lock mod outlocal remote > > "Lock" -- no, this isn't Maildir. The whole point of Maildir is that > you don't need locks because reading and writing are done in different > directories, and changes happen atomically. (This can even work with > editing.) > That's now far clear for me! As stated in a previous message replying to a Mark's post, I make a mess interpreting wrongly several messages from our services provider and some googled information. Ezmlm was behind the scene. Sorry for the misinformation! > > > allow bouncer dignum indexed lockbounce modsub owner subscribers > > archive config editor inlocal mailinglist num prefix text > > archived digest headeradd key manager outhost public tstdig > > > > Within /archive, there are two folders, 0 and 1, with a number of files, > > each of them containing one message, and an index file. > > > > Please, does this made sense for you? > > I don't recall anything like that. Please try to find an explanation > of the structure in the system documentation, or ask the vendor. > However, since you think they're "Maildir", probably what is meant is > that they have a structure that is one message per file rather than > many messages per file. You probably just need to figure out how to > get the order of messages right, then concatenate the messages. > > That's correct: messages are stored in separated files ordered in subfolders named with a series from 0 onward. 0, 1... each subfolder holds one hundred files, each of them with a complete message. I think the global order could be provided by the subfolder order plus the name of each file within a subfolder. Mark's reply contents a simple line to get some concatenation. I'll play with this idea and report back! > Most likely, all you need for each list are the archive folders and > the single messages, and maybe the index file will be of some use > depending on what it contains. If your documentation and/or the old > vendor are of no help, see if you can find a whole message file you > can send to us *as a file attachment* -- we want to see what headers > are included (it probably doesn't really matter, though, except for > the "Unix From_" which they probably don't have). If for privacy > reasons you don't want to broadcast any message on a public mailing > list, you can send it to Mark and me personally. Also it may be > helpful to figure out the rule for the folders whose names are > numbers: are they the leading digits where files are named 000 to 999? > Are they months? Years? etc. > Most lists are public, so privacy is not a concern! You can find here the complete folders' structure for one of the lists... http://datasource.idisantiago.es/r.users/ > > > Am I completely lost? > > No, of course not. Just don't delete anything until you're sure the > new system is working. I did qualify everything with "probably", it > may take a couple of guesses to get it right. :-) > > Thanks for your help! Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodríguez Research Management and Promotion Technician Technical Secretariat Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS) http://www.idisantiago.es ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
