Re: Using migrated mailbox?

On Sat, 15 May 2004 13:06:47 +0200 (Romance Daylight Time)
Vadim Zeitlin <[email protected]> wrote:

> BB> I tried creating a new "local mailbox" folder
> BB> in the folder tree, setting the filename to the exported mailbox,
but
> BB> that seemed to have no effect.  What I want to do is be able to
browse
> BB> the messages I have exported EXACTLY as I would browse
them on
> BB> the remote server.
>
>  This risks to be impossible without some tweaking as long as you
use the
> default (MBOX) format because many IMAP servers support
mailboxes which can
> contain both messages and mailboxes. In the file system, this is
> impossible: files can't contain other files.

	Is there an alternative to the MBOX format that would be more
appropriate?  I admit I don't know the specs of the format, but it seems
like it would be more consistent to always create a subdirectory for
each folder, then if necessary create a file in the subdirectory
containing the actual messages.  That is, instead of:

> So if you have "folder" and
> "folder/subfolder" on server, the migrate tool create the following
> locally:
> - directory "folder"
> - file/mailbox "folder/subfolder" with the messages of subfolder
> - file "folder.messages" with the messages of folder itself

	. . . always do:
- directory "folder"
- file "folder/messages"
- directory "folder/subfolder"
- file "folder/subfolder/messages"

	. . . or something like that.  Would that be a feasible change to
implement?  Admittedly, it does generate slightly deeper directory
nesting, but it seems cleaner than somtimes creating a subdirectory
and sometimes not.

> BB> Is there any way to update my local copy rather than re-
dumping
> BB> everything?
>
>  Unless you delete the messages from the server, no. Be warned that
> although moving (i.e. migrating and then clearing) and then
migrating again
> should work, I did not try it myself so please do make backup of all
your
> mail before trying it.

	Hmmm, that does sound a bit risky.  I guess once I have the local
file in the Mahogany folder tree, though, I can just manually select the
messages on the remote server and copy them to the local archive.

> BB> Also, the help window for Mahogany is still modal -- it won't
let
> BB> me look back at the main Mahogany window.  I reported this
bug
> BB> earlier but it is still present.
>
>  Sorry, under which platform does this happen?

	Windows XP.

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