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Subject: Re: Moving mail spools
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On Jun 6, 2005, at 11:53 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2005-06-06 11:48, Matt Juszczak <matt@atopia.net> wrote:
>> 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.

Good point.  Note that one should stop *clients* reading the mail via  
IMAP or whatever, too.  :-)

-- 
-Chuck