One mbox to hold 'em all

Roll your own IMAP mailbox into gmail:

1. git clone git://github.com/rgrove/larch.git
2. git clone git://gitorious.org/trollop/mainline.git
3. emerge -av highline

The larch Copy all folders recursively option gave me some problems, and since I wanted to do some mapping of folder names to different labels on gmail:

1. Make a list of folders on the from server - I used the contents of my thunderbird directory. E.g. something like:

   find . -name '*.msf' | sed -e 's/.msf//' -e's/.sbd//g' -e 's/-1//' -e 's/.\///'|sort|uniq

2. xemacs above to create a file, with one line for each folder with a simple format: from_format to_label
3. Feed into a script something like:

while read from to ; do
ruby -Imainline/lib:larch/lib  \
 larch/bin/larch \
      --from imap://imap.example.foo --from-user XYZ --from-pass OPW \
      --to imaps://imap.gmail.com --to-user ABC --to-pass DEF \
      --from-folder $from --to-folder $to
done

push the button Max, err Gunther

Why did I want this in the first case? - but anyway, it seems to work by:

1. Following the tip

2. Download tweetdeck or just:

wget http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/TweetDeck_0_25.air

For 26.4 (8 July 2009) this changed to:

http://downloads.tweetdeck.com/TweetDeck_0_26.air

3. Running the app with (note slight typo fix for app directory to tip in #1):

/opt/AIR-SDK/bin/adl -nodebug /opt/AIR-apps/TweetDeck_0_25/META-INF/AIR/application.xml /opt/AIR-apps/TweetDeck_0_25

It complains about:

I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/etc/opt/Adobe/certificates/crypt//config.xml"
Unable to parse Document: /etc/opt/Adobe/certificates/crypt//config.xml.

But otherwise appears to run, just with lots of warnings like:

warning: unable to bind to property 'tTextHTML' on class 'Object' (class is not an IEventDispatcher)
warning: unable to bind to property 'tSource' on class 'Object' (class is not an IEventDispatcher)
warning: unable to bind to property 'tUserID' on class 'Object' (class is not an IEventDispatcher)

Wait Up

If you find service startup (e.g. samba) failing because an interface started in the background isn't up in time, then waitup may be an answer:

#!/bin/bash

IFACE=$1
count=0
echo -n "Wait for ${IFACE}"

while ! /sbin/ifconfig ${IFACE} 2>/dev/null | grep -q "UP" ; do
  echo -n "."
  sleep 1
  count=`expr $count + 1`
  if [ $count -gt 10 ] ; then
     echo "not found in 15sec - bailing"
     exit 1
  fi
done

echo ". ($count)"

exit 0