I seriously suggest you give a second thought to using mbxcvt. It's not very robust, and it's not that scalable. Try this: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mimap/chapter/ch09.html On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Ken Murchison wrote: > > > richard offer wrote: > > > > What's the best way to move from an mail from an existing (non-IMAP/Berkeley) > > mailbox to a Cyrus mailserver if I have to keep all the status information > > (Read/Replied etc) intact ? > > You can try 'mbxcvt' which is part of the imap-utils package located > here: > > ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/ > > I've used this tool to take an mbox style mailbox and push it into my > Cyrus server several times for testing. I haven't been too concerned > with the IMAP flags, but a quick look at the source leads me to believe > that it will do what you need. > > BTW, you'll also need c-client to compile the tools, but you can get > this as part of the imap2000 package from the SGI freeware site > (assuming you are working on IRIX). > > Ken > -- > Kenneth Murchison Oceana Matrix Ltd. > Software Engineer 21 Princeton Place > 716-662-8973 x26 Orchard Park, NY 14127 > --PGP Public Key-- http://www.oceana.com/~ken/ksm.pgp >
