Re: [Dovecot] Need fast Maildir to mdbox conversion

2012-03-28 Thread Jeff Gustafson
On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 09:24 +0200, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: Why is it a problem that dsync takes a long time, when it can be done without downtime for the users? I just started our maildir-mdbox convertion yesterday, using the attached script. I only converted a little over 1 easy

Re: [Dovecot] Need fast Maildir to mdbox conversion

2012-03-28 Thread Jeff Gustafson
On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 20:00 -0700, Robin wrote: I'm writing a swiss-army (C-based, no bytecode crap languages) mailbox transcoding tool, since none appear to exist. To keep it simple, I/O to/from remote mailbox (connections) are not pipelined. It won't require more than MAXEMAILSIZE's

[Dovecot] Need fast Maildir to mdbox conversion

2012-03-27 Thread Jeff Gustafson
I looked around the 'Net to see if there might be a custom program for offline Maildir to mdbox conversion. So far I haven't turned up anything. The problem for us is that the dsync program simply takes a lot of time to convert mailboxes. I wonder if time could be saved with a program that

Re: [Dovecot] Need fast Maildir to mdbox conversion

2012-03-27 Thread Robin
On 3/27/2012 3:40 PM, Jeff Gustafson wrote: I looked around the 'Net to see if there might be a custom program for offline Maildir to mdbox conversion. So far I haven't turned up anything. The problem for us is that the dsync program simply takes a lot of time to convert mailboxes. Is