On 05/24/2010 07:40 PM, Tim wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 14:38 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> Just import the mbox file into any IMAP client (Thunderbird, >> Evolution, Claws, whatever ...) > > I've tried this with fairly large spool files, on Evolution (painfully > slow, and needs doing in chunks - select a month's mail, drag and drop > it between folders), and Thunderbird (eventually fails part way through, > even in chunks, with no clue as to how far along it got). So I'd like > to find a good tool for doing this, too. > > -rw------- 1 tim tim 663987436 2010-03-05 18:21 /home/tim/mail/lists/Fedora Hi, so it's more a year of Fedora mails, in a file, I has the same problem tens of thousands emails, I evaluate mbox, vs maildir, decided keep with mbox in separated files, because trying to rsync that quantity of emails in maildir well seemed in my case take a long time. seems which your only options to separate the mbox are: procmail but I'm unable to find a procmail recipe to evaluate the original date field from a email to construct a mailbox in the format fedora_year_month/ deliver from dovecot using a sieve script, that I have it working (I have the sieve rules to evaluate the date from the email but I need to extract the relevant parts from the script because filter many things more which mailing lists and is only tested with deliver from dovecot, so if you don't use dovecot will not work for you and will take hours, but will be automatic Gabriel -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
