* Tamas TEVESZ <ice@???> [20020116 11:47]: wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Odhiambo G. Washington wrote:
>
> > 1. I'll drop the (production) server to single user mode
>
> unneccessary. just stop exim and the pop(imap) server you have
> running. or even, don't stop exim, but have it running in queue-only
> mode, with a separate config just for this occasion. will keep your
> incoming mails happy :)
That's a _really_ good idea. The type I knew would come my way ;-)
> > #!/bin/sh
>
> forget that. pretty suboptimal :)
>
> i have a small perl script that does the stuff, but it's a
> single-instance solution. a friend of mine did a very heavily threaded
> little script for that, which i never tried, but if it was good for
> c&w, it could be good for others, too :) (the only drawback here could
> be that it's written in pike, and it certainly needs to be modified to
> mmet your needs. pike is not a too well-known language, chances are
> you don't speak it, which could certainly be a showstopper here).
>
> then yes, basically that's it. my perl script can be leeched from
> http://dawn.royalcomp.hu/~ice/dl/tools/mb2md.pl [if you're curious,
> there's an mb2md.pike too, which i haven't tried either, but at
> least you can check how pike looks like :), but you can find
> other fine solutions at qmail.org (or around qmail stuff, usually).
I've taken a quick look at mb2md.pl but from my amateurish look I don't
see HOW I can run it on multiple mboxes at the same time. I'll probably
have to define my variables again in the #!/bin/sh and call this perl
cript from in there. Sincerely perl is quite a stranger to me.
Again, a veru big thank you for this contribution and more importantly,
your time.
-Wash
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