Importing MBOX-formatted mailboxes into Cyrus?

[Simon Matter]

> Hi all,
>
> First off, thanks for all the excellent suggestions. Unfortunately, the
> simplest ones do not work. If I try to simply drag messages or entire
> folders to the IMAP server in Thunderbird, I get the following error:
>
> The current command did not succeed. The mail server responded: Message
> contains bare newlines.

Hi,

If you want your cyrus-imapd to handle those broken messages, you have to
patch it. Attached patch should do it.

Simon

>
> I am not sure what this means. Could anyone please elaborate or possibly
> offer a workaround? In the meantime, I am going to play around with
> procmail
> rules. Thanks again.
>
> Regards,
>
> Matt
>
> On 11/17/05, Joseph Brennan <brennan at columbia.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I was able to
>> > convert
>> > these into standard MBOX format using a tool called qmptombox, which
>> > we were
>> > able to import into Thunderbird's "Local Folders". Ideally, however,
>> > we
>> > would like to have these messages reside on the IMAP server itself.
>> > Are
>> > there any tools available that will take MBOX mailboxes and insert
>> > them into
>> > Cyrus?
>>
>>
>> Why not use Thunderbird and drag the folders from local to server?
>>
>> Joseph Brennan
>>
>>
>>
>> ----
>> Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus
>> Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu
>> List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
>>
> ----
> Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus
> Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu
> List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: cyrus-imapd-2.1.15-nobarenewlinescheck.patch
Type: text/x-patch
Size: 461 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/private/info-cyrus/attachments/20051117/11c9ab6b/cyrus-imapd-2.1.15-nobarenewlinescheck.bin