server maintenance

From: Doc Shipley <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Sun Feb 27 12:13:13 2005

Jay West wrote:
> Got all the websites moved. If any of you have trouble with your website
> on the classiccmp server please email me directly.
>
> Now I'm working on the last bit... going through the archives and
> rebuilding them. A bit more of a pain than I'd normally think, because
> the mailman archive rebuild program doesn't handle large files which of
> course the mbox files are. So I'm having to break them up by date ranges
> and import individually. There doesn't seem to be much in the way of
> programs to manipulate and break up mbox files, so I'm writing ditty's
> to do it.

   Jay, we've recently converted some clients' mailservers from mbox to
maildir operation. I used a Perl script named mb2md.pl to migrate all
the client accounts' mail archives.

   If having each spool as a directory and post as a separate file in
the directory will help, grab mb2md. It's very well-documented and as
far as I can tell it's completely reliable.

   It's also not horribly slow, given the task it has.


        Doc
Received on Sun Feb 27 2005 - 12:13:13 GMT