[Dovecot] Best way from Mbox to Maildir using 2.17?
Noel Butler
noel.butler at ausics.net
Tue Nov 5 03:28:55 EET 2013
On 05/11/2013 01:16, Mark Moore wrote:
>>>> mb2md.pl
>>>>
>>>> http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/
>
>
> The program has at least 2 bugs in it:
>
> . If the body has paragraph break (i.e., '\n') followed by the RFC822
> keyword 'From', the original message will loose the last half of
> the message and a phantom message will be created.
>
> Change from my notes:
>
> # if ( /^From /
> # -to-
> # if ( /^From .*? \d\d:\d\d:\d\d \d\d\d\d/
>
> . I never could figure out where the second bug was. This one created
> some messages with blank subject lines.
>
Never noticed this, but, it was a very very long time ago I last used
it, and since most users over here have always been pop3, probably never
had many to convert in the first place when I did use it, so risk was so
low. I think it was around the time we merged, and had to combine
sendmail/dovecot and qmail/vpopmail/dovecot systems into just a
postfix/dovecot solution, either we fluked it, or any affecteds didnt
bother to report it.
> Another annoyance was prefixing the newly created mail folders with a
> '.'
>
As Charles has already mentioned, thats how Maildir works
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