Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:58:46 -0400 From: Paul Kraus <paul@kraus-haus.org> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>, FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to transfer Mail from old machine to new FreeBSD box .... Message-ID: <7A2FA757-C28D-4441-9E00-F745468EBF96@kraus-haus.org> In-Reply-To: <53EA391E.9050609@hiwaay.net> References: <53EA391E.9050609@hiwaay.net>
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On Aug 12, 2014, at 11:56, William A. Mahaffey III <wam@hiwaay.net> = 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 = =85. 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 = Mailbox, whichever you used on the old). Or just setup the IMAP server on the new box, configure your email = client to see both, and use it to move the email over. -- Paul Kraus paul@kraus-haus.org
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