Re: Migrate from Maildir/IMAP/Exchange to NNML

[brettrandall]

On Apr 22, 9:33 am, brettrandall <brett.rand...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 22, 7:24 am, brettrandall <brett.rand...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Apr 21, 5:47 pm, Nicolas KOWALSKI <n...@petole.dyndns.org> wrote:
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> > > brettrandall <brett.rand...@gmail.com> writes:
> > > > Has anyone got a script or other that can already do this? I don't
> > > > care if it uses the locally sync'd Maildir, whether it talks to an
> > > > IMAP server (local or remote), or if it reads from a PST - I just
> > > > need to figure a way of converting all my folders to NNML and then
> > > > getting Gnus reading them.
>
> > > I would use 'mailutil', coming from UW-imapd distribution. The general
> > > idea is to transfer mails from an IMAP server to local 'mx' format.
> > > The 'mx' format works like 'mh', so the data files are fully readable
> > > in the Gnus nnml backend after rebuilding its databases using
> > > `M-x nnml-generate-nov-databases'.
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> > That sounds like a great idea. I'll give that a go today and report
> > back. Thanks for your help!
>
> Ok I've given that tool a go but it comes up with an error. This is
> probably not the best place to post this question but just in case
> you've had this before I thought I'd start here:
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> brett@secludedvalley:~$ mailutil transfer -v '{imapserver/notls/norsh/
> user=brett}INBOX' '#driver.mx//home/brett/Mail/'
> [Trying IP address [10.0.0.34]]
> [Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 IMAP4rev1 server version 6.5.7638.1
> (imapserver) ready.]
> password:
> Listing mailboxes...
> Copying {imapserver:143/imap/notls/user="brett"}INBOX/Personal
>   => #driver.mx//home/brett/Mail/INBOX/Personal
> [Reusing connection to imapserver/user="brett"]
> [Mailbox is empty]
> Can't create mailbox /home/brett/Mail/INBOX/Personal: invalid MX-
> format name
> [Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 IMAP4rev1 server version 6.5.7638.1
> signing off.]
> brett@secludedvalley:~$
>
> Any idea what that "invalid MX-format name" is? I tried it without
> "INBOX" and it died on the "Calendar" folder.

I've figured this one out. I was running the version that came with
Debian Etch's uw-mailutils, which apparently 6 years old. I downloaded
the latest UW-IMAP from the official server and mailutil worked great,
first time.

Thanks for your help.

Brett.