Subject: [sup-talk] Switching to a new mailbox format.

From: [email-masked] (Nicolas Pouillard)
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:30:18 +0100

Hi all,

I  want  to clean up my mails a little, to do this I need to change the actual
location of a mail from one source to another one.

I don't think that sup already provide a tool for that. That's right?

I would like to merge 3 mailboxes and a big maildir to one mailbox.

I  also  consider  to  try  an  alternative  to mailbox/maildir that will both
scales up and be backup friendly.

TIA,

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai

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From: [email-masked] (William Morgan)
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:36:42 -0800

Excerpts from nicolas.pouillard's message of Sun Dec 09 10:30:18 -0800 2007:
> I  want  to clean up my mails a little, to do this I need to change
> the actual location of a mail from one source to another one.
> 

Sup doesn't provide a tool to move mail between mailboxes, no. I find
that Mutt is actually the best tool for one-time tasks like this.

Now, in order to update Sup's index once mail has been moved, it
*should* be sufficient to sup-sync --changed on all the sources at once
(i.e., in one command, not split across multiple calls to sup-sync,
because that will lose message state). But I highly recommend a sup-dump
just in case, and try it on a small set of email first.

> I  also  consider  to  try  an  alternative  to mailbox/maildir that
> will both scales up and be backup friendly.

I thought maildir was the best solution for on-disk storage... is there
something better?

-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>