[Dovecot] mailutil?

[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? mailtool?

> Postfix has postconf for configuration issues, postqueue for queue management
> and postsuper to execute superuser commands.
> 
> doveconf? dovequeue? dovesuper? dovestore for storage (mbox, maildir, dbox,
> ...) handling?

I like this idea, and had suggested a while back to change the 'dovecot
-n' command to 'doveconf -n' to mirror the way postfix does this kind of
thing. It makes sense, and why reinvent the wheel when there's already a
model that works.

>>  - Is there any functionality you'd like it to do?

> 1. Create mbox|maildir|dbox mailboxes
> 2. Report mailbox size, number of messages, min.|avg.|max. message size

3. Be able to go through an *existing*, maybe even very large, mailstore
and 'de-duplicate' the entire mail store - once 'Single Instance
Storage' is supported of course.

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Best regards,

Charles