Re: mbox to Maildir

Dylan Reinhardt typed this on 05/04/2004 08:06 AM:
> [ will try typing something before hitting "send" this time. ]
> 
> On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 16:53, Robby Russell wrote:
> 
>>I tried to use a mbox to maildir perl script (mb2md) but it requires 
>>that the user have a shell on the machine and the users (few hundred) 
>>don't have a shell to su to do the conversion.
>>
>>Is there a script that will do this (as root) ? for any user that I want 
>>to run the script for?
> 
> 
> An outline of a Python script for this might be:
> 
> -----
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python
> 
> import os
> 
> mbox_name = 'mbox name goes here'
> 
> for user_name in os.listdir('/home/'):
>     if mbox_name in os.listdir('/home/' + user_name):
>         os.system('sudo %s mb2md -s /home/%s/%s' % (
>                                                    user_name, 
>                                                    user_name, 
>                                                    mbox_name))
> 
> -----
> 
> Hope that helps
> 

I'll try running it with sudo instead of su, however I think I tried 
that already. Stay tuned...

-Robby