Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:07:40 -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: <53EA3BCC.9010403@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <7A2FA757-C28D-4441-9E00-F745468EBF96@kraus-haus.org> References: <53EA391E.9050609@hiwaay.net> <7A2FA757-C28D-4441-9E00-F745468EBF96@kraus-haus.org>
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On 08/12/14 10:58, Paul Kraus wrote:
> On Aug 12, 2014, at 11:56, William A. Mahaffey III <wam@hiwaay.net> wro=
te:
>
>> .... Well, I am down to the snorting post, the last task I need to com=
plete before putting my new FreeBSD 9.3 box into service, replacing this =
one (AMD64X2 3800+, FC14 64-bit, terminally patched up several years ago)=
=2E 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 cop=
ied 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 neede=
d to do that. Is what I am doing supposed to work ? If not, how am I supp=
osed 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 :-/ .=
=2E.. thunderbird.x86_64 17.0.7-1.fc14.remi on the Fedora box, thunderbir=
d 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 clie=
nt to see both, and use it to move the email over.
>
> --
> Paul Kraus
> paul@kraus-haus.org
>
>
I am retreiving mail from my ISP using their POP3 server, as per the=20
last 20-ish years. T-bird stashes it iv the Mail directory under my user =
=2E... No IMAP involved that I know off :-/ ????
--=20
William A. Mahaffey III
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