Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:14:32 -0400 (EDT) From: doug <doug@fledge.watson.org> 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: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1408121239470.96880@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <53EA391E.9050609@hiwaay.net> References: <53EA391E.9050609@hiwaay.net>
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On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > .... 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 ago). > 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 copied > the whole thing. 35 min. later when it was done, I invoked T-bird on the > FreeBSD box & none of the Mail-directory was visible :-/. That method worked > 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 to do > this ? Mind you, there are yearly archives going back into the '90's, which 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 .... > imapsync
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