Paul J Stevens wrote:



RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote:

Server Specifics

FreeBSD version 4.10 stable
dbmail-mysql-2.0.0_2
postfix-2.1.5_1,1
procmail-3.22_5 with TLS
p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.0.2_1
clamav-0.82_1
clamsmtp-1.2

I have been using BincIMAP up until now and may have made a fatal mistake. I have been using IMAPdir's which are just maildir++ with some strangeness added in just to mess up my email client's a bit.

I cannot seem to convert my IMAPdir mailboxes using the script provided please help it seems to complete way to fast (my mail box is huge) and where does it go i have not created a user called luck yet in dbmail.

#./mailbox2dbmail --user luck --type maildir --mail /home/luck/IMAPdir --box INBOX
All Done!


So first create the user, *then* run the conversion script. It uses python's internal mail-parser for accessing the maildir, so unless BincIMAP uses a really non-standard format, it *should* work.


I have added the user luck to dbmail but used a different email address ie [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] this should not matter right?

I run the script and it completes All Done like above but no mail is processed to my dbmail mailbox maybe bincIMAP is more none standard than i though think it is just maildirs inside of maildirs. Here is some docs on the IMAPdir format can python figure this out

http://www.bincimap.org/bincimap-imapdir.html

here is the contents of my IMAPdir just ignore the .x files most of those are just me setting up dovecot and are empty.
NOTE THERE ARE new cur and tmp directories here

drwx------   5 luck  clients     512 Feb 17 20:31 IN-Lists.Mondo_Rescue
drwx------   5 luck  clients     512 Feb 17 20:32 IN-Lists.OpenSLL
drwx------   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 20 17:23 IN-Lists.Postfix
drwx------   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 23 01:41 IN-Lists.Procmail
drwx------   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 12 19:33 IN-Lists.SASL
drwx------   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 18 13:42 IN-Lists.Samba
drwx------   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 10 13:34 IN-Lists.Spamass
drwx------   5 luck  clients     512 Mar  3 04:16 IN-Lists.Squirrel_Mail
drwx------   5 luck  clients     512 Feb 17 20:30 IN-Lists.VgeTTY
drwx------   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 15 23:06 IN-Lists.alibaba
drwx------   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 24 00:50 IN-SERVERS.Cron
drwx------   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 17 15:26 IN-SERVERS.Daily
drwx------   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 21 10:51 IN-SERVERS.Mailer-daemon
drwx------   5 luck  clients     512 Feb 26 01:06 IN-SERVERS.Monthy
drwx------   5 luck  clients     512 Feb 26 01:08 IN-SERVERS.Security
drwx------   5 luck  clients     512 Feb 26 01:08 IN-SERVERS.Weekly
drwx-----x  13 luck  clients     512 Mar 25 21:32 INBOX
drwx-----x   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 15 23:04 Junk
drwx-----x   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 23 18:02 NEWS
drwx-----x   5 luck  clients     512 Feb  6 17:51 NEWS.JAXA
drwx-----x   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 22 17:03 SALES
drwx------   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 15 23:41 SALES.Aztec
drwx------   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 15 23:40 SALES.Intel
drwx-----x   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 22 17:03 SALES.PE
drwx-----x   5 luck  clients     512 Feb  6 17:51 SALES.SYNTAX
drwx-----x   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 18 13:34 SALES.Shoemasters
drwx-----x   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 22 16:41 SALES.TOPCOM
drwx-----x   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 16 00:12 SAVE
drwx------   5 luck  clients     512 Feb 18 01:57 SAVE.Lotus
drwx------   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 25 20:05 SPAMASS
drwx------   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 25 22:44 SPAMASS-BULK
drwx-----x   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 25 03:30 Sent
drwx------   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 21 16:30 Sent Items
drwx------   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 17 17:28 Templates
drwx-----x   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 22 16:38 Trash
drwx------   2 luck  clients     512 Mar  9 15:17 cur
-rw-------   1 luck  clients     144 Jan  8 19:08 dovecot-uidlist
drwx------   2 luck  clients     512 Jan  8 19:08 new
-rw-------   1 luck  clients  115847 Feb 16 17:04 razor-agent.log
drwx------   5 luck  clients     512 Mar 21 16:31 sent-mail
drwx------   2 luck  clients     512 Jan  8 15:34 tmp

here is the inside of  my INBOX

drwx------  5 luck  clients    512 Mar 22 22:11 .Drafts
drwx------  2 luck  clients    512 Dec 31 13:09 .INBOX
-rw-------  1 luck  clients      5 Dec 31 13:09 .customflags
-rw-------  1 luck  clients      6 Dec 31 13:09 .subscriptions
drwx-----x  5 luck  clients    512 Jun  9  2004 Drafts
drwx-----x  5 luck  clients    512 Jun  9  2004 Save
drwx-----x  5 luck  clients    512 Jun  9  2004 Save.jobs
drwx-----x  5 luck  clients    512 Jun  9  2004 Sent
drwx-----x  5 luck  clients    512 Jun  9  2004 Templates
drwx-----x  5 luck  clients    512 Jun  9  2004 Trash
-rw-------  1 luck  clients  11557 Mar 25 23:04 bincimap-cache
-rw-------  1 luck  clients     74 Mar 25 23:03 bincimap-uidvalidity
drwx-----x  2 luck  clients  23040 Mar 25 23:03 cur
-rw-------  1 luck  clients   1722 Dec 31 13:09 dovecot-uidlist
drwx-----x  2 luck  clients    512 Mar 25 23:08 new
drwx-----x  2 luck  clients    512 Mar 25 23:08 tmp

here is the inside of my cur

111747144.21489_1.tokyo.computerking.ca:2,S
1111749760.33835_1.tokyo.computerking.ca:2,S
1111761200.34491_1.tokyo.computerking.ca:2,S
1111766772.34879_1.tokyo.computerking.ca:2,S
1111797400.36472_1.tokyo.computerking.ca:2,S
1111811470.37004_1.tokyo.computerking.ca:2,S

I THINK THIS BOX IS TO MUCH OF A MESS THERE IS INBOXS AND .INBOXES EVERYWHERE. THINK I AM GOING TO SAVE WHAT IS IMPORTANT AND START OVER HOPE ALL MY USERS BOXES ARE NOT THIS F(&KED.



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