By davidtrainer on

I have Mailhandler/Listhandler subscribed to my Mailman lists and posting new list content as nodes in my forums, which is great.

Now I need to backfill my forums with a few years of old mailing list posts, from the Mailman archives (.mbox files). I have the mbox files on the local filesystem, but when I try to read them I just get an error in imap_open. I do not have an MTA running on this machine. I'm told I don't need one, but looking at the code, it seems like it will always use imap_open(). So I'm a little confused. How exactly do I get it to read a local mbox file?

I read this fairly old post on the same topic: http://drupal.org/node/8732 which says Apache must be recompiled on Debian. I'm on Ubuntu, is this still true?

Also, I saw this in the code:

  if($mailbox['domain']){
...
  else {
    $box = $mailbox['folder'];
    $result = imap_open($box, '', '');
  }

Which seems reasonable, except Domain is a required field on the form. The code inside the else should never execute.

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davidtrainer commented

It seems that the only file this will work on is /var/mail/www-data. This returns valid headers:

imap_open('/var/mail/www-data', '', '');

Any file other than that one gives me an error. I actually copied the www-data mail file to "somethingelse" and chmod 777'd it. I got this:

Can't open mailbox /var/mail/somethingelse: no such mailbox

Could this be by design for security reasons? Or am I doing something else wrong.