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The following tool helped me a great deal in migrating inboxes to a new server : http://perfectmaildir.home-dn.net/
 
What I did was setup the user accounts on the new server, and then copied the users' mailbox files from /var/spool/mail on the old box to a temp folder on the new box.
 
After using

sudo perl -MCPAN - e shell
> install Date::Parse

to setup some pre-reqs for the script, it ran perfectly!
 
 

Q: What's the best way to stay sane as a work from home computer programmer?

A: Shred some powder man!

It has been another fantastic season up at Monarch this winter.  I found this cool video of some guys hitting the back country at Monarch.  So now everyone can know what I am up to when I am not camped out in front of the computer working on a project.

No, this entry has nothing to do with strange food.  I am doing some experimenting today with the Dogtail GUI test tool in order to evaluate its capablities for testing apps on Linux.  First off, documentation on dogtail is very hard to come by.  The API docs on the dogtail site are very old so avoid using them if you can.  I recommend the following series of articles instead: