Weekly/Monthly record-keeping / maintenance?

[Ken Murchison]

I can guarantee that I had nothing to do with writing this code.  Other 
than updating the copyright blurb as Bron noted, I'm fairly certain I've 
never even looked at it.  Since its only example code, use it at your 
own risk.  If you fix it or improve it, feel free to pass us the changes.


Bron Gondwana wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 10:42:23AM -0400, Jeff Blaine wrote:
>> Okay, well, for what it's worth, I fixed all of the
>> problems prohibiting me from running a quota -f
>> to completion.
>>
>> The problem: imapdu.pl is buggy
> 
> Doh.
> 
>> It fails to do the right thing with mailboxes containing
>> a space in the name.
> 
> Yeah, that's not entirely a surprise.  Spaces in names
> confuse lots of stuff.
> 
>> ...
>> 1.46 MB 114 msgs INBOX.BMP
>> 1.46 MB 114 msgs INBOX.Bio Stuff
>> 0.00 bytes 0 msgs INBOX.Drafts
>> 1.25 MB 36 msgs INBOX.HLT
>> 1.25 MB 36 msgs INBOX.Information Retrieval
>> ...
>>
>> # $Id: imapdu.pl,v 1.9 2008/04/04 12:47:14 murch Exp $
>>
>> I don't suppose 'murch', the author of the code reads
>> this list?
> 
> Yeah, he's around, though he doesn't always see stuff as quickly
> if it's only sent to the list.  I've CC'd him.
> 
> That said, he's likely not the author - just the last person that
> changed things.  Given that he did a giant sweeping copyright
> update of nearly every file in the tree a couple of months ago...
> 
>   my ($rc, $msg) = $cyrus->send('', '', "EXAMINE $mb");
>   if ($rc eq 'OK') {
>   } else {
>       print "failed: $mb: $msg\n";
>   }
> 
> Apart from being icky perl, that will fail to change mailboxes
> because the EXAMINE command will have dodgy syntax.  I'm not
> entirely sure why you're not seeing the 'failed' messages
> though...  The "$mb" needs to be at least quoted - which is
> why I generally use something like Mail::IMAPTalk that can
> do correct protocol quoting.
> 
> Ahh - it probably does output the "failed" stuff further up.
>  
> Bron.
> 

-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Carnegie Mellon University