[ale] fetchmail right tool?

[Jerald Sheets]

Something I've done several times for people is to enable IMAP, spend some
time hand-copying all the messages out to the IMAP server, prune it like I
want, then re-import it to wherever it needs to be.

It's the ultimate portability tool *especially* when it comes to getting
Outlook mail into something else (Evolution).  I love that solution.  The
only thing you need for it is enough space to handle the mail store.

I hope that answers what you're trying to do.

Jerald M. Sheets jr.
Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator
Datatrac, Inc
770.552.3866 x2494 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On 
> Behalf Of Vincent Fox
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 10:48 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] fetchmail right tool?
> 
> Okay I have a problem that I am stuck on, perhaps someone has 
> a better idea?
> 
> A user comes to me wanting to download and archive nearly 
> 8,000 messages
> off a shared mail account.  Main goal is to archive this old messages,
> clean the account down to only the last few months of messages.
> 
> The first thing that occurs to me is to use fetchmail.
> 
> However fetchmail expects a local MTA to deliver to. So I start up
> postfix on the local machine (localhost-only access) and fire 
> a fetchmail.
> A quick hack, and I think a the time a simple and safe one.
> 
> Since this is a shared account that it's coming from, it seems like
> all the To: and Cc: info is causing bounces however to get delivered
> back to the senders. So some of the senders into this account
> get 50-200 bounces of messages from 2 years ago. They call wondering
> WTF is going on with this rogue mailserver.
> 
> OOPS!
> 
> Anyone got a better idea? Way to have fetchmail just dump the silly
> things into one big local mbox file instead of looping to an MTA?
> 
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