Moving messages from about 100 mbox files to imap server

Moving messages from about 100 mbox files to imap server

[Rainer M Krug]

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Hi

I have downloaded archives from a mailing list (in mbox format) and
would like to import them into gnus.

Is there any way that I can do this from gnus?

Thanks,

Rainer
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Re: Moving messages from about 100 mbox files to imap server

[Rainer M Krug]

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Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:

> Hi
>
> I have downloaded archives from a mailing list (in mbox format) and
> would like to import them into gnus.

OK - I converted them into maildir format and now I will put them into
dovecot.

Cheers,

Rainer

>
> Is there any way that I can do this from gnus?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rainer

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SOLVED: Moving messages from about 100 mbox files to imap server

[Rainer M Krug]

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Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:

> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have downloaded archives from a mailing list (in mbox format) and
>> would like to import them into gnus.
>
> OK - I converted them into maildir format and now I will put them into
> dovecot.

OK - solved it.

Here my solution:

,----
| 1) I downloaded a script is from
|    [[https://github.com/igor47/mailtools/blob/master/mbox2maildir.py]] and
|    named it =conv.pl=
| 
| 2) I run it together with =find= to iterate through all mbox files
|   
|    mkdir ./Maildir
|    find . -name "MATCHING_THE_MBOX_FILES" -exec ./conv.pl {} ./Maildir/ \;
|
| 
| 3) The files are created in =./Maildir/new=. 
| 
| 4) I then moved them to my maildir used by dovecot
| 
| mv ./Maildir/new ~/Maildir/TARGETFOLDER/new
`----

And in gnus they showed op as new mails in the maildir.

Cheers,

Rainer


>
> Cheers,
>
> Rainer
>
>>
>> Is there any way that I can do this from gnus?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rainer

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Re: Moving messages from about 100 mbox files to imap server

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>:

> I have downloaded archives from a mailing list (in mbox format) and
> would like to import them into gnus.

> Is there any way that I can do this from gnus?

I've never tried this, but:
 G F <name-of-mbox-file>
should open the mbox file as an ephemeral nndoc group, and then you can
mark and move/copy the articles to a different group (eg. on an IMAP
server).

Re: Moving messages from about 100 mbox files to imap server

[Adam Sjøgren]

Steinar writes:

> I've never tried this, but:
>  G F <name-of-mbox-file>
> should open the mbox file as an ephemeral nndoc group, and then you can
> mark and move/copy the articles to a different group (eg. on an IMAP
> server).

I've used that a bunch of times - it has worked well for me.


  Just a data point,

    Adam

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Re: Moving messages from about 100 mbox files to imap server

[Rainer M Krug]

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asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren) writes:

> Steinar writes:
>
>> I've never tried this, but:
>>  G F <name-of-mbox-file>
>> should open the mbox file as an ephemeral nndoc group, and then you can
>> mark and move/copy the articles to a different group (eg. on an IMAP
>> server).
>
> I've used that a bunch of times - it has worked well for me.

I am sure that it works (I tried it as well) but it takes ages to open
an mbox file with thousands of emails - so no option if 100 mbx files
are involved.

But I managed using another script (see my other post)

Thanks,

Rainer


>
>
>   Just a data point,
>
>     Adam

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Re: Moving messages from about 100 mbox files to imap server

[Adam Sjøgren]

Rainer writes:

> I am sure that it works (I tried it as well) but it takes ages to open
> an mbox file with thousands of emails - so no option if 100 mbx files
> are involved.

Ahh, I misread - I thought it was one mbox with 100 emails in...

With 100 files, something more automated is definitely preferable.
(Altough in a pinch, a keyboard macro might be doable ;-))

> But I managed using another script (see my other post)

Cool!


  Best regards,

    Adam

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Re: SOLVED: Moving messages from about 100 mbox files to imap server

[Rainer M Krug]

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I wrote this =up in a blog post for reference:

https://rmkrug.wordpress.com/2015/03/26/convert-multiple-mbox-files-into-a-maildir/

Cheers,

Rainer


Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:

> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
>
>> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I have downloaded archives from a mailing list (in mbox format) and
>>> would like to import them into gnus.
>>
>> OK - I converted them into maildir format and now I will put them into
>> dovecot.
>
> OK - solved it.
>
> Here my solution:
>
> ,----
> | 1) I downloaded a script is from
> |    [[https://github.com/igor47/mailtools/blob/master/mbox2maildir.py]] and
> |    named it =conv.pl=
> | 
> | 2) I run it together with =find= to iterate through all mbox files
> |   
> |    mkdir ./Maildir
> |    find . -name "MATCHING_THE_MBOX_FILES" -exec ./conv.pl {} ./Maildir/ \;
> |
> | 
> | 3) The files are created in =./Maildir/new=. 
> | 
> | 4) I then moved them to my maildir used by dovecot
> | 
> | mv ./Maildir/new ~/Maildir/TARGETFOLDER/new
> `----
>
> And in gnus they showed op as new mails in the maildir.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rainer
>
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>>>
>>> Is there any way that I can do this from gnus?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Rainer

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