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 > > Thanks to the slowness (the above would take hours and hours), I've left > my mail server still running on FC4. The last attempt at moving the > mail, aborted because I simply don't have the time to babysit a machine > for that amount of time, I copied the spool file onto a newly set up > CentOS box as /var/mail/tim and tried dragging the contents of the inbox > to another folder through the IMAP server on the CentOS box, figuring > that that'd be quicker that trying to network it between two mail > servers. It was still excruciatingly painfully slow. > > I want to move from spool files to maildir, because it's getting > impossible to use with huge spool files. Any status change of the spool > file takes ages to complete, and you can't do anything else while you > wait (e.g. you can't read another message). > > If it's your own mail server and your running an imap server like dovecot which uses maildir format, then just use the dovecot script to convert your mbox file directly into the file space of the imap server. Just make sure you understand how the script works and that your putting the files in the right place (I've never used that script). You may have to build the indexes after the files are moved. Another option is to use a local mail client to split the file into several smaller folders before trying to move it into imap. Nataraj -- 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
