Preserving seen state when converting from mbox

Etienne Goyer etienne.goyer at linuxquebec.com
Fri Sep 26 08:16:38 EDT 2003


Ho boy ... that make me cry ...

However, after verification I was *WAY* off-track concerning the size of
the mbox we need to transfer.  Apparently, there is only around 800 MB
(phew!).  The machine is a recent quad-XEON box 2 GB of RAM.  By
contrast, what does your hardware looked like ?

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:52:59PM +0200, Jure Pecar wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:04:48 -0400 (EDT)
> Igor Brezac <igor at ipass.net> wrote:
> 
> > I do not think you have enough time to transfer several gigs (if not more)
> > of email in just a few hours over IMAP protocol. 
> 
> Just for the reference, it took us about two weeks to transfer about 300gb
> of mailspool from one live system to another (with perdition in front), on a
> reasonably fast hw, with custom php scripts doing imap2imap copy (and
> related user imgration) in parallel.
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Jure Pecar

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Etienne Goyer                    Linux Québec Technologies Inc.
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