Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi wrote:
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 19:19 +0100, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
I doubt you need to worry about the indexes. The messages' flag state should be stored in the maildir filenames, and I'd hope that kmail does that too.
How low on your list of priorities would land idea of utility "make-mailstore-tidy"? :-)
P.S. I have "personal mail store" migrated from cyrus (by my own *ugly* migration script) via maildir to dbox. I would like to convert all file names to more "uniform" format before next migration I sure I will see in a few years perspective :-)
What exactly do you think such utility should do? What filenames?
Let me explain it "by example":
I use dbox mailbox. In dbox-Mails folder I have message files named:
- u.99 [dbox created file name]
- 1231249011.P20963Q0M722109.shevek:2,Sa [dovecot maildir created&modified name]
- 1.:2,Sa [cyrus name, modified by dovecot maildir] [ I have used my own cyrus to maildir conversion scripts]
"Inconsistent" conventions for names of "email message file" is not a very big deal after one conversion but it may lead (IMHO) to very ugly chaos after a few conversions (after a 5-10 years of persistent use).
-- [pl>en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : anfi@onet.eu "Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." -- Vince Lombardi, football coach