On 3/24/2009 2:21 AM, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: >> I'm starting to think about building a more generic mailutil tool, maybe >> something similar to what UW-IMAP has. So two questions: >> >> - What should the tool be called? Probably not mailutil to avoid >> confusion. doveutil? dovemail? dovetool? mailtool?
> Postfix has postconf for configuration issues, postqueue for queue management > and postsuper to execute superuser commands. > > doveconf? dovequeue? dovesuper? dovestore for storage (mbox, maildir, dbox, > ...) handling? I like this idea, and had suggested a while back to change the 'dovecot -n' command to 'doveconf -n' to mirror the way postfix does this kind of thing. It makes sense, and why reinvent the wheel when there's already a model that works. >> - Is there any functionality you'd like it to do? > 1. Create mbox|maildir|dbox mailboxes > 2. Report mailbox size, number of messages, min.|avg.|max. message size 3. Be able to go through an *existing*, maybe even very large, mailstore and 'de-duplicate' the entire mail store - once 'Single Instance Storage' is supported of course. -- Best regards, Charles