Xubuntu user. Live in UK Lincs. I would be grateful if someone could advise where one enters the new config. I'm not sure if it's a text file or graphical. I not so up on technicalities these days as i don't work in IT but continue to use xubuntu for home use.
I have had the same broadband for over 12 years and as rates have changed decided on a change. Thx james On Mon, 9 May 2022, 09:05 Mark Rogers, <[email protected]> wrote: > Apologies for the slow reply, I've been mostly reading emails on my > mobile and it can't do a plain-text reply. > > On Thu, 5 May 2022 at 19:34, <[email protected]> wrote: > > but you also say there are 200k emails. I'm guessing that there are > > 200k emails in total, but way less than that in a directory. > > Correct > > > [NB, I occasionally use fslint to de-dup] > > Ditto, both to fslint and "occasionally" - ie there are probably loads > of things it does I don't know about! > > > Write a program: > > That's where I thought I might end up! > > > so you say that you have different directories, one email per file. > > Yes > > > I'm presuming that file Account1/2022/5/1/aaaa.eml could be the same > > email as Account2/2022/5/1/bbbb.eml but with a different name. > > Yes. > > In theory contents and file size will match, although I have found > that there are some discrepancies due to things like line endings - > I'm guessing the restore has fixed some poor formatting issues in the > backups. > > > What information can you extract about the email? Is the 2022/5/1 > > the date of the email, or the date of the backup? > > Date of the email. That and file size are all I have directly but I > can obviously grep the files for anything else I might want (subject, > sender, etc). > > <<Big snip>> > > Where I ended up was to use: > find dir1/ dir2/ -type f -name '*.eml' -printf '%h %s %f\n' > .. which gives me all the files with file sizes, formatted as: > dir1/2019/3/30 112874 169d0343152c5ad6.eml > > I then wrote a hacky PHP script to sort and filter this output > removing any pairs of files with the same filesize from any date-named > directory. It then listed the remaining files along with the Subject > of the emails grep'd from the file, for manual processing. > > Incidentally I can recommend GYB[1] for archiving GMail mailboxes, and > for restoring said backups later. It's a bit fiddly and often > inflexible but it's done what I need to migrate emails from legacy > free workspace accounts to free ones. > > > Hope that helps. > > It did, thank you. > > [1] https://github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back > -- > Mark Rogers // More Solutions Ltd (Peterborough Office) // 0344 251 1450 > Registered in England (0456 0902) 21 Drakes Mews, Milton Keynes, MK8 0ER > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > http://www.alug.org.uk/ > Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above! >
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