Out of Topic: IMAP

[Richard Frovarp]

Steve Campbell wrote:
>
>> We run IMAP and use mbx format. There are occasional issues when the
>> index is corrupted, but there are tools to fix it. Using mbx over 
>> maildir prevents the system from having to read n files for the 
>> required information, where n is the number of messages in the 
>> folder. As you might expect n can grow to be quite large.
>> -- 
> Would you care to provide the tool you use to repair the corruption, 
> please? I have looked (half-heartedly) for a tool that would do this, 
> and although I have found a few, none seem to be really all that great.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve Campbell
> campbell at cnpapers.com
> Charleston Newspapers
>

We use Mark Clement's recovermbx script to convert the file over to mbox 
format. We then use mailutil to convert from mbox to mbx. There is of 
course glue to ship parameters around and do error checking. However, 
this isn't my work, so I don't want to post it to the list. You may want 
to check out this out: 
http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/c-client@u.washington.edu/1108849.html

The one down side of our method is that it tends to mark all messages as 
unread.