migrating from messaging direct -- problem with read messages
Folks,
We are migrating from messaging direct's mail server. What I am doing is tar'ing up a user's account,moving it to the new server and untar'ring it. I them use mboxutil to create the folders and then make the '00' directory and number the messages appropriate and move then in. Then I run reconstruct on the mailbox and it works great. The problem is that all the messages are now unread. How do I make them read again?
keith
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705569] at [2007-11-25 8:49:05]
I had to do a similar migration from a different mail server. I migrated the messages to each user via IMAP, using a Perl script.
The Perl script would determine a few message states and set the IMAP flags appropriately.
I don't recall seeing anything in the docs about setting message states directly. However, in your case, it appears you already have the messages in seperate files. You could try loading via IMAP and setting the flags. I used the NetxAP perl module from CPAN. An alternative, there is an import utility for iMS2. I haven't used it, but you could convert the mail to UNIX mbox format and then load into iMS52.
HTH,
Roger S.
