Re: [Mailsync-list] managing damaged headers?

[Tomas P. <tp...@so...>]

On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Bill Kearney wrote:

> Hi all,  (is anyone around?)

According to the mailing list archive the last message was 4 days 
before...

> What's a good way to manage a mailbox that's got a ton of damaged headers?

Don't know sorry.

> That is, moving from a uw-imap server to one running cyrus.  mailsync
> reports a number of errors with damaged headers.  I'd like to find the most
> effective way to identify which messages are involved.

Try the debug and verbose switches of mailsync (mailsync --help), they 
should give you quite some information about which message if being 
processed.

>  And eventually find a way to get the 'fixed enough' to let cyrus accept them.

> Basically it appears an install of hotwayd (a pop daemon to pull from
> hotmail) somehow managed to mangle a fair number of messages.  Putting some
> high-ascii gibberish in headers.  I'm surprised uw-imap let me read them at
> all but that's a different issue.
>
> Is there a way to use mailsync such that it moves the mail one-way instead
> of syncing?  As in, move everything "it can" from the uw-imap server over to
> cyrus leave behind only the stuff it couldn't hande?

I'd try some half-automated search/replace such as load the mailbox into 
a text editor, find out what's wrong and let the editor half-automatically 
fix it (I'd use vim's "record/replay" functionality to achieve that)

> The uw-imap distribution comes with 'mailutil' that supposedly handles some
> of this but it's syntax is rather difficult to master.

Even harder than mailsync's? /me is astonished
*t

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