[Dovecot] How to set MDNSent flag on a large amount of mails?
Hi, after having moved a big mail archive to IMAP, I've now got the following problem: The MUA asks to send an MDN on all those old messages that contain the 'Disposition-Notification-To' header when opened. I'd like to set the $MDNSent flag on those (1 in a deeply nested directory structure) mails. After having read http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir I wrote a script that changed the filename of mails in all directories that contained the header, so that the filename contained a 'b' in the last part of the filename (after the comma), because I found '1 $MDNSent' in Maildir/dovecot-keywords. I then discovered that there can be a 'dovecot-keywords' file in each directory, and all of those files can have different flags in different order. Do I really need to write a script that evaluates each dovecot-keywords file, figures out which letter corresponds to the flag and rename the files (per directory) accordingly? Isn't there a more simple way? Patrick. -- STAR Software (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.http://www.star-group.net/ Phone:+86 (21) 3462 7688 x 826 Fax: +86 (21) 3462 7779 PGP key: https://stshacom1.star-china.net/keys/patrick_nagel.asc Fingerprint: E09A D65E 855F B334 E5C3 5386 EF23 20FC E883 A005
Re: [Dovecot] How to set MDNSent flag on a large amount of mails?
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 00:33 +0800, Patrick Nagel wrote: after having moved a big mail archive to IMAP, I've now got the following problem: The MUA asks to send an MDN on all those old messages that contain the 'Disposition-Notification-To' header when opened. I'd like to set the $MDNSent flag on those (1 in a deeply nested directory structure) mails. .. Do I really need to write a script that evaluates each dovecot-keywords file, figures out which letter corresponds to the flag and rename the files (per directory) accordingly? Isn't there a more simple way? How about making your script use IMAP protocol? 1 list * 2 select each mailbox 3 uid search header Disposition-Notification-To 4 uid store search result as msgset +flags $MDNSent signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Dovecot] How to set MDNSent flag on a large amount of mails?
Hi, On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:37:50 +0300, Timo Sirainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about making your script use IMAP protocol? 1 list * 2 select each mailbox 3 uid search header Disposition-Notification-To 4 uid store search result as msgset +flags $MDNSent Thanks, Timo! Never thought of that :) I'll give it a try tomorrow... netcat would be the bridge between my shell and dovecot then, I guess? Patrick. -- STAR Software (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.http://www.star-group.net/ Phone:+86 (21) 3462 7688 x 826 Fax: +86 (21) 3462 7779 PGP key: https://stshacom1.star-china.net/keys/patrick_nagel.asc Fingerprint: E09A D65E 855F B334 E5C3 5386 EF23 20FC E883 A005
Re: [Dovecot] How to set MDNSent flag on a large amount of mails?
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 01:17 +0800, Patrick Nagel wrote: Hi, On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:37:50 +0300, Timo Sirainen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about making your script use IMAP protocol? 1 list * 2 select each mailbox 3 uid search header Disposition-Notification-To 4 uid store search result as msgset +flags $MDNSent Thanks, Timo! Never thought of that :) I'll give it a try tomorrow... netcat would be the bridge between my shell and dovecot then, I guess? That'll work, I tend to use python because it comes with error checking, you can use http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/files/cleanspam.txt and modify. johannes signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [Dovecot] How to set MDNSent flag on a large amount of mails?
Hi, On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:20:43 +0200, Johannes Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 01:17 +0800, Patrick Nagel wrote: I'll give it a try tomorrow... netcat would be the bridge between my shell and dovecot then, I guess? That'll work, I tend to use python because it comes with error checking, you can use http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/files/cleanspam.txt and modify. Thanks, Johannes :) My python skills are very limited, but your example script looks straight forward, and the 'difficult' part isn't even needed for my task, so I'll give it a try. Patrick. -- STAR Software (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.http://www.star-group.net/ Phone:+86 (21) 3462 7688 x 826 Fax: +86 (21) 3462 7779 PGP key: https://stshacom1.star-china.net/keys/patrick_nagel.asc Fingerprint: E09A D65E 855F B334 E5C3 5386 EF23 20FC E883 A005
Re: [Dovecot] How to set MDNSent flag on a large amount of mails?
--On Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:17 AM +0800 Patrick Nagel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll give it a try tomorrow... netcat would be the bridge between my shell and dovecot then, I guess? Another possibility would be to use the c-client library, part of the uw-imap package: http://www.washington.edu/imap/
