Re: Converting from unix to mbx format

2004-04-20 Thread David Lee
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Mark Crispin wrote: > On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, David Lee wrote: > > A further question: if the INBOX is in the home directory, and an incoming > > message would take it over quota, what is _supposed_ to happen? > > If delivery fails due to over quota, it is supposed to revert the

Re: Converting from unix to mbx format

2004-04-19 Thread Mark Crispin
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, David Lee wrote: A further question: if the INBOX is in the home directory, and an incoming message would take it over quota, what is _supposed_ to happen? If delivery fails due to over quota, it is supposed to revert the file to its previous state by truncating the file to th

Re: Converting from unix to mbx format

2004-04-19 Thread David Lee
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Mark Crispin wrote: > On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, David Lee wrote: > > Is there any reason why "/var/mail/$user" (usually in trad. UNIX format) > > cannot itself be in "mbx" format? (Trying it as such seems not to work, > > and this seems to be confirmed by the "docs/drivers.txt" de

Re: Converting from unix to mbx format

2004-04-15 Thread Mark Crispin
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, David Lee wrote: Is there any reason why "/var/mail/$user" (usually in trad. UNIX format) cannot itself be in "mbx" format? (Trying it as such seems not to work, and this seems to be confirmed by the "docs/drivers.txt" description.) That's a good question! Fortunately, there

Re: Converting from unix to mbx format

2004-04-15 Thread David Lee
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, Sahil Tandon wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 09:53:12AM +0100, Clive McDowell wrote: > > > mailutil move /var/mail/joesoap #driver.mbx/home/joesoap/INBOX > > > > Are there any other options? > > AFAIK, if an emtpy mbx format INBOX exists in /home/$user/INBOX, an imap > connect

Re: Converting from unix to mbx format

2004-04-03 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 09:53:12AM +0100, Clive McDowell wrote: > mailutil move /var/mail/joesoap #driver.mbx/home/joesoap/INBOX > > Are there any other options? AFAIK, if an emtpy mbx format INBOX exists in /home/$user/INBOX, an imap connection to the server will cause the mbx driver to "automa

Converting from unix to mbx format

2004-04-02 Thread Clive McDowell
Folks, sorry this is mailbox format related rather than a c-client issue but I thought this would be a good list to ask. We want to convert all the inboxes on a Solaris 8 platform from standard unix to mbx format. There are already a few inboxes in that format and our exim MTA is set up to deliver