Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 17:51:26 -0400 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Matt Juszczak <matt@atopia.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving mail spools Message-ID: <6601DB48-B0C1-4B31-9305-DCE2A87C5840@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20050606155340.GC2525@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> References: <42A47045.6080700@atopia.net> <20050606155340.GC2525@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv>
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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
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