Sorry I was out of the loop for this thread, I'm a little behind on my mail. I'm currently testing a new version of imapmigrate -- I'll add this patch and it will be included in the next release. Thanks, Scot!
Scot W. Hetzel wrote: >From: "Darrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>We're testing the imapmigrate scripts (from >>http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cyrus-utils/) to migrate from a >>netscape messenging server to cyrus 1.5.19 (yes i know its an old >>version, but its a version i we know well and our needs are simple ;-). >> >>All seems fine, except that all versions of Outlook and Outlook Express >>we've tested, when pointed at the new server, show the 'received' date >>of all emails as the time the migration tool place, rather than the >>correct time that the message was originally received...other mail >>clients (various versions of NM and pine) diplay the received field >>correctly. >> > >>Interestingly, the 'Sent' date field in Outlook IS correct after >>migration...so adding this field to the users' list of visible fields >>and sorting accordingly is a workaround, but not a solution. >> >>SO >> >>I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas/experience in ways to hack >>imapmigrate to work properly with (broken mail clients like) outlook? >> >The way cyrus works is that it shows the Date the message was delivered to >the mail spool by reading the date from the file system for its received >date to show to the IMAP mail clients. Cyrus doesn't parse the first >Received header to get the received date. > >The problem is not with the mail clients, but with the imapmigrate script. >This script should be getting the received date from the old server, and >then using it when storing the message on the new server. > >I had a similar problem when migrating messages using the mbox2imap.pl >script. When I changed the script to parse the 1st Received header for the >received date and then store the message with this received date, the IMAP >clients showed the correct received date. > > From mbox2imap.pl (NetxAP): > $response = $IMAP->append($mailbox, $message, Flags => >["$msgFlags"], Date => $msgDate); > >Imapmigrate needs to be changed to get the received date from the old IMAP >server and store it on the new IMAP server. The following changes to >imapmigrate are untested (goto line 505 in imapmigrate to make the changes): > > # get a list of message ID numbers in the selected folder, > # and for each one get the text of the message and the read/unread > # and other IMAP flags, and copy them to the new server > > for $msg ($oldimap->search(ALL)) { > my $msgtext = $oldimap->message_string($msg); > my @flags = $oldimap->flags($msg); >+ my $msgdate = $oldimap->internaldate($msg); > my $flg = ""; > for (@flags) { > $flg .= $_ . " "; > } > chop($flg); > >- $newimap->append_string($newfolder, $msgtext, $flg); >+ $newimap->append_string($newfolder, $msgtext, $flg, $msgdate); > } > } > >Scot > > -- Jules Agee System Administrator Pacific Coast Feather Co. [EMAIL PROTECTED] x284 Private communication between citizens is necessary to ensure the continued preservation of freedom. For more information, see: http://www.computerprivacy.org/archive/03171998-5.shtml My public encryption key is available here: http://keyserver.pgp.com/pks/lookup?op=get&exact=on&search=0x21662FE4
