Preserving seen state when converting from mbox

[Etienne Goyer]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:22:17PM -0400, Bennett Crowell wrote:
> When we had to do a similar migration, I changed the mailutil sourcecode to 
> get the username and password from environment variables instead of 
> prompting for them. At migration time, we made sure we had a backup of the 
> password database, then changed all passwords to one that we used for the 
> migration. After all the mailboxes were copied, the saved passwords were 
> restored. Only the mm_login function needs to be changed in mailutil.c for 
> this technique to work. If you are interested, let me know, and I will send 
> you the changes needed.

I'll take it.  Maybe you could post it on the list, in case it interest
somebody else ?  This way, it will also get into the archive.

> Use "mailutil append" for mailboxes that already exist, and "mailutil copy" 
> for others.

Thank you so much for pointing this out !

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Etienne Goyer                    Linux Québec Technologies Inc.
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