Parsing mailboxes

[cmika@-takethisout-25thandclement.com]

Problem: Mozilla mailbox is way to big (800MBs).
Solution: Split it up.

#!/usr/bin/perl

############
# Splits Mozilla style Inboxes into smaller ones (max size = maxMailboxSize)
# use: ./splitMozilla <mailbox name>
# output: mailbox0 [mailbox1] [mailbox2] ...
############

$maxMailboxSize = 104857600;
$mailboxNumber = 0;
open OUTPUTFILE, ">mailbox$mailb oxNumber";

while(<>) {
if(/^From /) {
if((stat(OUTPUT FILE))[7] > $maxMailboxSize ) {
close OUTPUTFILE;
$mailboxNumber ++;
open OUTPUTFILE, ">Inbox$mailbox Number";
}
}
print OUTPUTFILE $_;
}

Problem: It's not working. It's creating mailbox0, writes about 1.9MBs, then
the system runs out of memory, which shouldn't happen. What I'm basically
trying to do is search for a new message, check if the outputfile is over
100MBs, if it is, create a new one, if it's not, then write the message to
outputfile. Any ideas?

-Chris Mika
cmika@-takethisout-25thandclement. com

[Steve Bennett]

Re: Parsing mailboxes

Have you taken into consideration the summary file?
This is from my netscape knowledge but I assume mozilla is the same.
If you change a mail folder you have to first kill netscape (mozilla)
delete the coresponding .summary file and let netscape (mozilla)
re-create
the summary file when it starts again.
The summary files are hidden use ls -al to see them. (in the unix world)

-s

cmika@-takethisout-25thandclement. com wrote:[color=blue]
>
> Problem: Mozilla mailbox is way to big (800MBs).
> Solution: Split it up.
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> ############
> # Splits Mozilla style Inboxes into smaller ones (max size = maxMailboxSize)
> # use: ./splitMozilla <mailbox name>
> # output: mailbox0 [mailbox1] [mailbox2] ...
> ############
>
> $maxMailboxSize = 104857600;
> $mailboxNumber = 0;
> open OUTPUTFILE, ">mailbox$mailb oxNumber";
>
> while(<>) {
> if(/^From /) {
> if((stat(OUTPUT FILE))[7] > $maxMailboxSize ) {
> close OUTPUTFILE;
> $mailboxNumber ++;
> open OUTPUTFILE, ">Inbox$mailbox Number";
> }
> }
> print OUTPUTFILE $_;
> }
>
> Problem: It's not working. It's creating mailbox0, writes about 1.9MBs, then
> the system runs out of memory, which shouldn't happen. What I'm basically
> trying to do is search for a new message, check if the outputfile is over
> 100MBs, if it is, create a new one, if it's not, then write the message to
> outputfile. Any ideas?
>
> -Chris Mika
> cmika@-takethisout-25thandclement. com[/color]