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mankoff

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May 26, 2009, 10:04:00 AM5/26/09
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Hi Group,

I'm an Alpine user but I hope it is OK to post a question here.

I'm getting a system-wide slowdown when saving to certain folders.
I've spent the morning reading up on the alpine-info list and a few
threads mention this could be related to having large folders in the
historical formats. In my case I have a few mailboxes with between 5k
and 10k messages and size on order of 200 or 300 MB.

It seems like mix format is the solution, but I'm not clear how to
convert. How do I find the current format of my mailbox files? They've
been around for around a decade and created by pine so I think they
are mbox. I've downloaded and compiled alpine but it does not appear
to come with "mixcvt". I'm on OS X using fink and I found uw-mailutils
which includes the uw-mailutil among others. Can this be used?

Any advice on a command to convert my existing folder of mailboxes to
a new format, assuming that will improve access speed, will be
appreciated.

Thanks,

-k.

Erik Quaeghebeur

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May 27, 2009, 2:30:59 PM5/27/09
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On Tue, 26 May 2009, mankoff wrote:
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> I'm an Alpine user but I hope it is OK to post a question here.

Of course, comp.mail.pine is now about alpine ;-)

> It seems like mix format is the solution, but I'm not clear how to
> convert. How do I find the current format of my mailbox files? They've
> been around for around a decade and created by pine so I think they
> are mbox. I've downloaded and compiled alpine but it does not appear
> to come with "mixcvt". I'm on OS X using fink and I found uw-mailutils
> which includes the uw-mailutil among others. Can this be used?

I've successfully used mailutil to save locally to mix format from an imap
server, so it can sure do that, and I do think it should be able to do
what you want. Every time I use it, I have to relearn the syntax: look at
some of my posts to this group containing the word mailutil...

Success,

Erik

mankoff

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May 28, 2009, 4:01:59 PM5/28/09
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Thanks. I got it with a command similar to:

uw-mailutil transfer -v something.mbox "#driver.mix/something.mix"

It wasn't seamless and created the something.mix in ~/ but then I
manually moved it back to ~/mail/ and alpine acted exactly as before,
just a lot faster.

-k.

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