Not So Dreamy, Apparently
[ rakaur on Sat Apr 22 at 12:01 AM // category: apple, software, technology, unix ]
Well, that sucked.
DreamHost uses NFS mounts for their mailing system. Because NFS is widely known for being so mind-blowingly slow that it’s nearly useless for anything other than people that get two emails a century it made moving my mail extremely hard.
Attempt #1:
scpall of my mail in Maildir oncyndaneover to DreamHost, and switch my settings in Mail frommail.ericw.orgtomail.malkier.net. This appears to work for a few minutes, then suddenly stops working because DreamHost randomly refuses my password.Attempts #2-#998: I keep trying to fix the password issue, and they keep telling me it’s fixed. It works for about half a second before it breaks, and I start over.
Attempt #999: With my password finally working, I begin to realize that
dovecotis so vastly superior tocourierthat, when combined with NFS, I have absolutely zero chance of keeping my mail organized how I have it now. I have about 4,000 messages inINBOXbecause I use Mail’s “Smart Inboxes” to dynamically organize the messages. Having 4,000 messages in one folder is not good for IMAP over NFS (especially usingcourier). This made my mail completely unusable.Attempt #1000: Remove everything. Go into
cyndane’s mail via Mail and set up an archive system wherein I move all my mail into anArchivedfolder which contains additional folders named a laArchived/yyyy/mm(i.e.Archived/2006/04/). I then archive the Maildir and upload the archive to DreamHost. I then unarchive everything and fix the permissions, and completely remove all accounts in Mail and add DreamHost. This works.
This was a colossal pain in the ass. At least I can now remove mail from cyndane, which will remove about 80% of the running load and installed packages.
One down, two to go.
-- rakaur // 2006.04.22 @ 12:01 AM
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