[xubuntu-users] Broadband provider change

[Bill Heald]

Yes
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Subject: [xubuntu-users] Broadband provider change

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<mailto: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<mailto: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<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FGAM-team%2Fgot-your-back&data=05%7C01%7C%7C99999b3a7cee4649e22908da330f4e7e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637878438084347605%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=U%2BamZ0V4KWmDWFnUHCkyiTuyJ5rIPop0144%2FAQFpy0g%3D&reserved=0>
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