[xubuntu-users] Broadband provider change

[James Freer]

Xubuntu user. Live in UK Lincs.

I would be grateful if someone could advise where one enters the new
config. I'm not sure if it's a text file or graphical. I not so up on
technicalities these days as i don't work in IT but continue to use xubuntu
for home use.

I have had the same broadband for over 12 years and as rates have changed
decided on a change.

Thx
james

On Mon, 9 May 2022, 09:05 Mark Rogers, <mark at more-solutions.co.uk> wrote:

> Apologies for the slow reply, I've been mostly reading emails on my
> mobile and it can't do a plain-text reply.
>
> On Thu, 5 May 2022 at 19:34, <steve-ALUG at hst.me.uk> wrote:
> > but you also say there are 200k emails.  I'm guessing that there are
> > 200k emails in total, but way less than that in a directory.
>
> Correct
>
> > [NB, I occasionally use fslint to de-dup]
>
> Ditto, both to fslint and "occasionally" - ie there are probably loads
> of things it does I don't know about!
>
> > Write a program:
>
> That's where I thought I might end up!
>
> > so you say that you have different directories, one email per file.
>
> Yes
>
> > I'm presuming that file Account1/2022/5/1/aaaa.eml could be the same
> > email as Account2/2022/5/1/bbbb.eml but with a different name.
>
> Yes.
>
> In theory contents and file size will match, although I have found
> that there are some discrepancies due to things like line endings -
> I'm guessing the restore has fixed some poor formatting issues in the
> backups.
>
> > What information can you extract about the email?  Is the 2022/5/1
> > the date of the email, or the date of the backup?
>
> Date of the email. That and file size are all I have directly but I
> can obviously grep the files for anything else I might want (subject,
> sender, etc).
>
> <<Big snip>>
>
> Where I ended up was to use:
>     find dir1/ dir2/ -type f -name '*.eml' -printf '%h %s %f\n'
> .. which gives me all the files with file sizes, formatted as:
>     dir1/2019/3/30 112874 169d0343152c5ad6.eml
>
> I then wrote a hacky PHP script to sort and filter this output
> removing any pairs of files with the same filesize from any date-named
> directory. It then listed the remaining files along with the Subject
> of the emails grep'd from the file, for manual processing.
>
> Incidentally I can recommend GYB[1] for archiving GMail mailboxes, and
> for restoring said backups later. It's a bit fiddly and often
> inflexible but it's done what I need to migrate emails from legacy
> free workspace accounts to free ones.
>
> > Hope that helps.
>
> It did, thank you.
>
> [1] https://github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back
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