From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 12 16:01:27 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1CD00B8B for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:01:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DCF4D24C1 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:01:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (rbn1-216-180-76-133.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.76.133]) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id s7CG1POQ018460 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:01:25 -0500 Message-ID: <53EA3BCC.9010403@hiwaay.net> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:07:40 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" Subject: Re: How to transfer Mail from old machine to new FreeBSD box .... References: <53EA391E.9050609@hiwaay.net> <7A2FA757-C28D-4441-9E00-F745468EBF96@kraus-haus.org> In-Reply-To: <7A2FA757-C28D-4441-9E00-F745468EBF96@kraus-haus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:01:27 -0000 On 08/12/14 10:58, Paul Kraus wrote: > On Aug 12, 2014, at 11:56, William A. Mahaffey III 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.