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It's the ultimate portability tool *especially* when it comes to getting
Outlook mail into something else (Evolution).  I love that solution.  The
only thing you need for it is enough space to handle the mail store.

I hope that answers what you're trying to do.

Jerald M. Sheets jr.
Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator
Datatrac, Inc
770.552.3866 x2494 
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> su -
Password:
# cat /dev/flood > /dev/earth
# rdev noah+beasts
# dd if=noah+beasts of=/dev/earth

 

> -----Original Message-----
&gt; From: ale-bounces at ale.org [<a  rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ale-bounces";>mailto:ale-bounces</a> at ale.org] On 
&gt; Behalf Of Vincent Fox
&gt; Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 10:48 PM
&gt; To: ale at ale.org
&gt; Subject: [ale] fetchmail right tool?
&gt; 
&gt; Okay I have a problem that I am stuck on, perhaps someone has 
&gt; a better idea?
&gt; 
&gt; A user comes to me wanting to download and archive nearly 
&gt; 8,000 messages
&gt; off a shared mail account.  Main goal is to archive this old messages,
&gt; clean the account down to only the last few months of messages.
&gt; 
&gt; The first thing that occurs to me is to use fetchmail.
&gt; 
&gt; However fetchmail expects a local MTA to deliver to. So I start up
&gt; postfix on the local machine (localhost-only access) and fire 
&gt; a fetchmail.
&gt; A quick hack, and I think a the time a simple and safe one.
&gt; 
&gt; Since this is a shared account that it's coming from, it seems like
&gt; all the To: and Cc: info is causing bounces however to get delivered
&gt; back to the senders. So some of the senders into this account
&gt; get 50-200 bounces of messages from 2 years ago. They call wondering
&gt; WTF is going on with this rogue mailserver.
&gt; 
&gt; OOPS!
&gt; 
&gt; Anyone got a better idea? Way to have fetchmail just dump the silly
&gt; things into one big local mbox file instead of looping to an MTA?
&gt; 
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