Re: Starting imports from filesystem via other mechanisms

Where are the mbox files; on the same machine running Zoe?

If they are, what is wrong with initiating the import process using a web
browser and moving the files into ~/Library?

That would seems like the easiest way.

BTW. The import code is pretty straight forward once you are able to
compile, package and run from source.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Hanisch" <[email protected]>


>
> Hi,
>
> I want to do bulk imports of various .mbox files from the filesystem,
> mainly for performance reasons.
> The files are already in place, all that is left to do is to start Zoe's
> import process...
>
> At the moment, I see 3 different possible solutions:
> - "reverse-engineer" the form and use HTTP POST
> - use XML-RPC  (is this documented somewhere? Where?)
> - write a smallish Java program that does starts the import
>
> >From what I can tell now,
> - the first possibility is the ugliest (but probably the fastest)
> - the second sounds cool, that is, IF I can find docs on the XML-RPC API
> - the third possibility would probably be the most useful for me, but
>   would probably take the longest time (figuring out which classes to
>   use, setting up the context for those classes etc.)
>   While I'm at it, I could probably write a command line option for Zoe
>   that starts the import process...
>   Also, I could get rid of the need to place all .mbox files (huge!)
>   in ~/Library, which is on an NFS server (slow!)...
>
> Can anyone give me some hints which direction I should take?
> Or maybe tell me that this has already been done? ;-)
>
> TIA,
> Michael.



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