Hi folks,
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.
Server is RHEL 4, dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 Current client is Mozilla Thunderbird (1.5.0.4) in Mac OS X 10.4.6 using IMAP. Previous client was MS Entourage (OS x 10.4.6) using POP.
Thanks in advance.
Dominic Lepiane Simon Fraser University/IRMACS dlepiane@irmacs.sfu.ca (604)268-7369
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.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com
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@irmacs.sfu.ca (604)268-7369
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