[Dovecot] mailutil question re: translating mbox folders to maildir

2010-02-04 Thread Stewart Dean
I need mailutil in order to use the mbox to maildir translation routines that are posted in the Dovecot wiki, but there is no mailutil with the AIX image... mailutil is apparently built as part of Pine, and indeed I can see it in the build tree from my V4.6.1 Pine build, which I still

Re: [Dovecot] mailutil?

2009-05-08 Thread Phillip Macey
On 24/03/2009 11:25 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote: dbox format needs at least two tools: 1. Expunging only marks the message having refcount=0. The actual disk space is freed only after calling a tool pointing to the user's dbox dir. 2. Ability to force index resync/rebuild in case it doesn't figure

Re: [Dovecot] mailutil?

2009-03-26 Thread Asbjørn Sannes
Timo Sirainen wrote: dbox format needs at least two tools: 1. Expunging only marks the message having refcount=0. The actual disk space is freed only after calling a tool pointing to the user's dbox dir. 2. Ability to force index resync/rebuild in case it doesn't figure out itself that

Re: [Dovecot] mailutil?

2009-03-26 Thread Christian Schmidt
Hello Timo, Timo Sirainen, 24.03.2009 (d.m.y): On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 20:25 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote: - What should the tool be called? Probably not mailutil to avoid confusion. doveutil? dovemail? dovetool? mailtool? dovestore, dovemail, doveadm, doveadmin, dovetool are probably

Re: [Dovecot] mailutil?

2009-03-26 Thread Curtis Maloney
Steffen Kaiser wrote: - Is there any functionality you'd like it to do? + (re-)index selected mailboxes, maybe recursively, based on mailbox and/or possibly corrupted, existing indexes + remove/sanitize (user-) flags from mailboxes I was going to suggest this ... something to at least go

Re: [Dovecot] mailutil?

2009-03-26 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mar 26, 2009, at 6:15 PM, Curtis Maloney wrote: Steffen Kaiser wrote: - Is there any functionality you'd like it to do? + (re-)index selected mailboxes, maybe recursively, based on mailbox and/or possibly corrupted, existing indexes + remove/sanitize (user-) flags from mailboxes I

Re: [Dovecot] mailutil?

2009-03-26 Thread Curtis Maloney
Timo Sirainen wrote: On Mar 26, 2009, at 6:15 PM, Curtis Maloney wrote: Steffen Kaiser wrote: - Is there any functionality you'd like it to do? + (re-)index selected mailboxes, maybe recursively, based on mailbox and/or possibly corrupted, existing indexes + remove/sanitize (user-) flags

Re: [Dovecot] mailutil?

2009-03-26 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mar 26, 2009, at 6:35 PM, Curtis Maloney wrote: I was going to suggest this ... something to at least go through and clean up the size flags on Maildir (which seems worthwhile, especially for people using quotas). They are not flags, they are part of the base maildir filename. If you

Re: [Dovecot] mailutil?

2009-03-25 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 20:25 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote: 1. Expunging only marks the message having refcount=0. The actual disk space is freed only after calling a tool pointing to the user's dbox dir. Another important question is what should this functionality be called? UW-IMAP calls it

Re: [Dovecot] mailutil?

2009-03-25 Thread Jose Celestino
Words by Timo Sirainen [Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 02:33:31PM -0400]: On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 20:25 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote: 1. Expunging only marks the message having refcount=0. The actual disk space is freed only after calling a tool pointing to the user's dbox dir. Another important

Re: [Dovecot] mailutil?

2009-03-24 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* Timo Sirainen dovecot@dovecot.org: dbox format needs at least two tools: 1. Expunging only marks the message having refcount=0. The actual disk space is freed only after calling a tool pointing to the user's dbox dir. 2. Ability to force index resync/rebuild in case it doesn't figure

Re: [Dovecot] mailutil?

2009-03-24 Thread Charles Marcus
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?

Re: [Dovecot] mailutil?

2009-03-24 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Timo Sirainen wrote: 2. Ability to force index resync/rebuild in case it doesn't figure out itself that there's something wrong. - What should the tool be called? Probably not mailutil to avoid confusion. doveutil? dovemail?

Re: [Dovecot] mailutil?

2009-03-24 Thread Steffen Kaiser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: 1. Create mbox|maildir|dbox mailboxes Well, I thought this, too, but because of the direct way to call dovecot-imap, most of this could be handled through IMAP interactively or script. Maybe: to

Re: [Dovecot] mailutil?

2009-03-24 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 20:25 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote: - What should the tool be called? Probably not mailutil to avoid confusion. doveutil? dovemail? dovetool? mailtool? dovestore, dovemail, doveadm, doveadmin, dovetool are probably usable names. I'm beginning to think doveadm or doveadmin

Re: [Dovecot] mailutil?

2009-03-24 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:40:41PM -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote: I'm beginning to think doveadm or doveadmin would be good. Because Cyrus had cyradm :) I prefer dovecotadm or doveadm. It's an administrative command and the name fits the purpose.

[Dovecot] mailutil?

2009-03-23 Thread Timo Sirainen
dbox format needs at least two tools: 1. Expunging only marks the message having refcount=0. The actual disk space is freed only after calling a tool pointing to the user's dbox dir. 2. Ability to force index resync/rebuild in case it doesn't figure out itself that there's something wrong. I'm