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Date:      Mon, 6 Jun 2005 18:53:40 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Matt Juszczak <matt@atopia.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Moving mail spools
Message-ID:  <20050606155340.GC2525@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>
In-Reply-To: <42A47045.6080700@atopia.net>
References:  <42A47045.6080700@atopia.net>

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On 2005-06-06 11:48, Matt Juszczak <matt@atopia.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We've got a new freebsd server setup, and an old mail server with
> slackware on it.
>
> We need to move the mail spools from the slack machine to the freebsd
> machine.  if I just copy them over to var/mail will it automatically
> work or does freebsd use a different format?

Yes.  UNIX mailbox files are simply a sequence of mail messages
concatenated after each other.

Please note that you should only move mailboxes while delivery is
stopped to them though.  Otherwise, you may end up with corrupt
mailboxes on the destination folder.




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