Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 11:31:14 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to transfer Mail from old machine to new FreeBSD box .... Message-ID: <53EE35D2.3030909@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1408141202310.96880@fledge.watson.org> References: <53EA391E.9050609@hiwaay.net> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1408121239470.96880@fledge.watson.org> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1408141202310.96880@fledge.watson.org>
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On 08/14/14 11:40, doug@safeport.com wrote: > > > On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, doug wrote: > >> 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 > > Did you get this done? If not I can give some help using the above > utility. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Not yet, but I am going to look into it. I change machines *so* infrequently it seems like extra wheel-spin ....
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