Jon Rowell wrote:
I am working on converting from unix mail spools to cyrus. I have
pretty much everything working except for after I get things
converted and startup cyrus and people download the messages to their
client the "Date Received" (that's what my mac email client calls
it... outlook express calls it "Received") for every message is set
to the time that the message was converted to cyrus format. Is it
possible to change this value to either the Date: header of the
message or the date/time mentioned in the Received: header? Anything
is better than 3am on whatever date I ran my conversion program.
Not that I know of, other than deleting the message and reissuing an
append command with the proper date.
Some notes on how I'm doing my conversion. I am using more or less
the same process that is described in the O'Reilly "Managing Imap"
book which creates all of the mailboxes for you, splits each spool up
using formail, copies into individual files for cyrus and then when
we're all done runs "reconstruct -r". I would expect reconstruct to
reset this date received for me but it doesn't.
The problem is that the IMAP internal date is not present in the message
itself. Depending on what your old mail server was, the flags and seen
state won't be there either (and even if they are Cyrus reconstruct
won't know what to do with them), so any method of converting the plain
messages into Cyrus will lose this data.
Anybody know anything about this? I haven't run across this issue
anywhere on the web. Is everyone simply happy getting the message
there with the wrong date received?
I was first doing something similar, and then decided to go with UW
IMAP's mbxcvt and run it on the raw spool files (since we were upgrading
from UW IMAP). It properly copies the internal date and all the flags.
Also, what raw command is given to the imap server in order to
retrieve this information?
fetch internaldate
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John A. Tamplin
Unix Systems Administrator
