Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 23:33:23 +0700 From: Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to transfer Mail from old machine to new FreeBSD box .... Message-ID: <CA%2Bg%2BBvjKEvuZ9Tv5c5R74ayakiGN2mQUv4jdeP6HAa8S_1=Ddw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <53EA3BCC.9010403@hiwaay.net> References: <53EA391E.9050609@hiwaay.net> <7A2FA757-C28D-4441-9E00-F745468EBF96@kraus-haus.org> <53EA3BCC.9010403@hiwaay.net>
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William, >>> .... Well, I am down to the snorting post, the last task I need to >>> complete before putting my new FreeBSD 9.3 box into service, replacing = this >>> one (AMD64X2 3800+, FC14 64-bit, terminally patched up several years ag= o). >>> Unfortunately, it looks like a bit of a doozy. I need to get the Mail >>> directory from the old machine to the new one. To start with, I just co= pied >>> the whole thing. 35 min. later when it was done, I invoked T-bird on th= e >>> FreeBSD box & none of the Mail-directory was visible :-/. That method w= orked >>> AOK the last time I used it, 10+ years ago when I put the old box into >>> service :-). That was also the last time I tried, last time I needed to= do >>> that. Is what I am doing supposed to work ? If not, how am I supposed t= o do >>> this ? Mind you, there are yearly archives going back into the '90's, w= hich >>> I want preserved. The whole Mail directory is ~20 GiB :-/ .... >>> thunderbird.x86_64 17.0.7-1.fc14.remi on the Fedora box, thunderbird 31= on >>> the FreeBSD (box std,) .... TIA for any pointers =E2=80=A6. >> >> How is your client accessing the email? IMAP? >> >> Did you remember to install and setup your IMAP server? I use dovecot. >> Remember to use the same format on the new box (either MailDir or Mailbo= x, >> whichever you used on the old). >> >> Or just setup the IMAP server on the new box, configure your email clien= t >> to see both, and use it to move the email over. >> >> -- >> Paul Kraus >> paul@kraus-haus.org >> >> > > > I am retreiving mail from my ISP using their POP3 server, as per the last > 20-ish years. T-bird stashes it iv the Mail directory under my user .... = No > IMAP involved that I know off :-/ ???? Your first message was really unclear, so Paul assumed you were trying to set-up an email server, while all you are doing is an email client. First of all, with your new machine, can you access the POP3 server of your ISP, can you read mail from there? Can you send mail too? Once that is working, create a new test mail folder, find out where Tbird did create that mail folder and copy your mail from the old machine to the new machine with the same scheme as the new test folder. Bests, Olivier
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