[imp] Batch import mbox files into individual folders

[Mauricio Jose T. Tecles]

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     Data: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 17:55:40 +0000
     De: Administrator BCS <adje at bezoekerscentrumsonsbeek.nl>
  Assunto: [imp] Batch import mbox files into individual folders
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> We are migrating from Openwebmail to Horde. Some of our users made a lot of
> subfolders in their Openwebmail account over the years, up to 250 per user.
> We need to transfer them all to Horde. Mail folders are stored by
> Openwebmail as individual mbox files for each folder so they import into
> Horde without problems. The process being:
>
>   *   Login as user #x
>   *   create a (sub) mailfolder with the name of the mbox file
>   *   import the mbox file in the newly created folder
>   *   repeat 2-3 until all mbox files of this user are done
>   *   repeat 1-5 for all users
>
> Normally this is something I would leave to the users but with so many
> mailboxes per user it might be a good idea trying to automate things a bit.
> Step 2-3 would be sufficient. So I would need a script that reads the
> content of a directory with mbox files, create a mailfolder in Horde for
> each file named after that file, and imports each mbox file in the
> corresponding folder.
>
> Unfortunately I have little to no php knowledge. I made a futily effort and
> if I am not mistaken /var/www/horde/imp/lib/Basic/Folders.php is called for
> creating folders and /var/www/horde/imp/lib/Mbox/Import.php handles import.
> Is that correct?
> My question: can I use those scripts, calling them passing appropiate
> parameters to them? If so, what parameters do they expect? Or can you point
> me towards another solution for batch import of mbox files?
> Thanks,
> Martin

Mail folders are not Horde files. Horde uses your system backend to  
deal with your mail folders and INBOX. In other words, Horde uses your  
IMAP or POP server (for exemple: Dovecot). For example, I use Debian  
with Dovecot. For user x:

Folders are in:  /home/x/mail
INBOX:  /var/mail/x

Nothing to do with Horde! I can use my smartphone or whatever mail  
cliente in my computer to deal with my (IMAP) mail folders besides  
Horde. One time I use Horde, another time I use my smartphone cliente  
to work with the same mail folders.

Read Horde documentation and INSTALL to understand how it works.

Mauricio

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