It's not one 200mb file
I know how bad it gets even 3mb mbox file is slow
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Colin Humphreys wrote:
> pine can be patched to support Maildir... , and the generic pop and imap
> server also has a patch....
>
> Procmail does deliveries to Maildir fine.....
>
> Check out links off www.qmail.org if you are interested....
>
> 200mb in one mbox? Wow!!!!
> Surely that takes about half an hour to modify....
> The change is quite easy.... there is an mbox to Maildir utility.... I've
> never made any huge conversions mind you.... 30 users with small boxes.
>
> If its working don't fix it.... I'd make regular backups of your file
> though.... One stuff up by your client and boom no more mail.
>
> -Colin
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeffrey Borg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Colin Humphreys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Graeme Merrall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 7:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] MS Outlook to Netscape mail conversion
>
>
> >
> > I haven't found a problem with it anyway so far.
> >
> > Had up to about 10,000 messages in a file at once
> >
> >
> > Anyway does pine support maildirs? or it's too tired into mobox (seeing it
> > comes from the same place the imap and pop server come from)
> >
> > What about changing procmail over?
> >
> > and converting over 200mb of email!
> >
> > I am not exactly keen to change
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Colin Humphreys wrote:
> >
> > > I would advise against dumping a large amount of email into the mbox
> > > format... there is a huge amount of room for data corruption... use
> Maildirs.
> > >
> > > The problem then is that I have yet to find a IMAP server that support
> > > maildirs that is Outlook compliant....
> > >
> > >
> > > Jeffrey Borg wrote:
> > >
> > > > I should write a howto about this
> > > >
> > > > You need two machines (one with the gates virus on it of course!)
> > > > (or win4lin or vmware will do)
> > > >
> > > > For most distributions there should be a imap server there so usually
> it's
> > > > only a matter of removing the # from /etc/inetd.conf and reloading it.
> > > >
> > > > Once that is done you can just fire up oe and setup the imap account,
> then
> > > > just move your messages from the outlook expresses local folders to
> the
> > > > imap server.
> > > >
> > > > Of course usually the imap server has written mbox files anyway which
> > > > netscape can directly read to import the email, or better still secure
> the
> > > > imap server and leave it there so you can use any email client you
> wish to
> > > > read your email.
> > > >
> > > > The other option is just to take the mbox files and put them in
> netscapes
> > > > mail path.
> > > >
> > > > Anyway worked for me. It can even apply to get those hotmail messages!
> > > > (using oe5)
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Graeme Merrall wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I'm using Gnome-Helix as my desktop of choice now and Netscape for
> mail
> > > > > until Evolution is useable. I've got a pretty large amount of email
> in
> > > > > MS-Outlook .pst format that I'd like to get into Netscape Mail or at
> > > > > least access without installing Win4Lin and Outlook just to look at
> the
> > > > > darn things.
> > > > > Is there such a converter out there?
> > > >
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