Thanks for your reply! Please, read below!
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 3:19 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> wrote:
[IDIS Technical Secretariat] Ricardo Rodríguez writes:
Thanks Mark, all,
On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 4:09 AM, Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
On 08/28/2015 12:52 AM, [IDIS Technical Secretariat] Ricardo Rodríguez wrote:
I have a number of Maildir format mailing lists archives
No, you don't have Maildir, at least not "Maildir" as most of the Internet understands it. Here's what Dan Bernstein (the inventor or at least popularizer of Maildir) says:
Can a maildir contain more than tmp, new, cur? Yes: .qmail: used to do direct deliveries with qmail-local. bulletintime: empty file, used by system-wide bulletin programs. bulletinlock: empty file, used by system-wide bulletin programs. seriallock: empty file, used to serialize AutoTURN.> Ricardo-Rodriguezs-Mac-Pro:r.users rrodriguez$ ls
Log bounce digissue headerremove lock mod outlocal remote
"Lock" -- no, this isn't Maildir. The whole point of Maildir is that you don't need locks because reading and writing are done in different directories, and changes happen atomically. (This can even work with editing.)
That's now far clear for me! As stated in a previous message replying to a Mark's post, I make a mess interpreting wrongly several messages from our services provider and some googled information. Ezmlm was behind the scene. Sorry for the misinformation!
allow bouncer dignum indexed lockbounce modsub owner subscribers archive config editor inlocal mailinglist num prefix text archived digest headeradd key manager outhost public tstdig
Within /archive, there are two folders, 0 and 1, with a number of files, each of them containing one message, and an index file.
Please, does this made sense for you?
I don't recall anything like that. Please try to find an explanation of the structure in the system documentation, or ask the vendor. However, since you think they're "Maildir", probably what is meant is that they have a structure that is one message per file rather than many messages per file. You probably just need to figure out how to get the order of messages right, then concatenate the messages.
That's correct: messages are stored in separated files ordered in subfolders named with a series from 0 onward. 0, 1... each subfolder holds one hundred files, each of them with a complete message. I think the global order could be provided by the subfolder order plus the name of each file within a subfolder.
Mark's reply contents a simple line to get some concatenation. I'll play with this idea and report back!
Most likely, all you need for each list are the archive folders and the single messages, and maybe the index file will be of some use depending on what it contains. If your documentation and/or the old vendor are of no help, see if you can find a whole message file you can send to us *as a file attachment* -- we want to see what headers are included (it probably doesn't really matter, though, except for the "Unix From_" which they probably don't have). If for privacy reasons you don't want to broadcast any message on a public mailing list, you can send it to Mark and me personally. Also it may be helpful to figure out the rule for the folders whose names are numbers: are they the leading digits where files are named 000 to 999? Are they months? Years? etc.
Most lists are public, so privacy is not a concern! You can find here the complete folders' structure for one of the lists...
http://datasource.idisantiago.es/r.users/
Am I completely lost?
No, of course not. Just don't delete anything until you're sure the new system is working. I did qualify everything with "probably", it may take a couple of guesses to get it right. :-)
Thanks for your help!
Ricardo
-- Ricardo Rodríguez Research Management and Promotion Technician Technical Secretariat Health Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela (IDIS) http://www.idisantiago.es