[Dovecot] repairing mbox files

Dominic Lepiane dlepiane at irmacs.sfu.ca
Tue Jun 20 19:45:59 EEST 2006


On Monday 19 June 2006 16:38, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 16:32 -0700, Dominic Lepiane wrote:
> > Is there a good tool for repairing/working with mbox files?  I'm trying
> > to get a user moved off of Entourage (Outlook for Mac).  Entourage
> > actually exports the mail (was pop, will be imap) as mbox files, however,
> > I can't just drop them in place even after fixing the line-endings.  many
> > of the messages with attachments come up with the correct header info but
> > no message body or attachment.  But some work so it's clearly a problem
> > that a lot the messages are malformed somehow.
>
> If you still have the mail on the original client, can't you just set
> up an imap account in it pointing to your new server and let it push
> the messages back to an imap folder itself?  That way you don't have
> to know/care how either the client or server stores the messages.

That's probably what I'll end up having to do, I was hoping to avoid it since 
that will be a slow process.

-- 
Dominic Lepiane
Simon Fraser University/IRMACS
dlepiane at irmacs.sfu.ca
(604)268-7369
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