Re: [sup-talk] current state of synching upstream?

From: Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>
To: sup-talk <sup-talk@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-talk] current state of synching upstream?
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:16:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1271254358-sup-3024@pinkfloyd.chass.utoronto.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1271249704-sup-1088@masanjin.net>

Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Wed Apr 14 09:00:59 -0400 2010:

> (Assuming that the Maildir format won't simply collapse with the result
> of converting 29 million lines of mbox goodness.)

mbox2maildir is (generally) your friend.  We've used it here with some
success.  The only issue we had is when the first line in a paragraph
of a mail message starts with /From /.  As you've seen from dealing
with mboxes in sup, this isn't necessarily an easy problem to fix...in
our case, we're dealing with mboxes created with the likes of ancient
pine and elm, etc, so we might be worse off than normal mutt-made
mboxes for instance.

A conversion solution that is better, if possible, is to use imapsync,
as it leaves the mbox parsing to the imap software.  It requires more
overhead to be useful though[1].

Thanks
-Ben

[1] I'll provide more (dovecot) tips if anyone is interested.
-- 
Ben Walton
Systems Programmer - CHASS
University of Toronto
C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302

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