From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 12 18:12:03 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EE209BCC for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 18:12:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [198.74.231.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42AAA2D6E for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 17:14:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [198.74.231.63]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 19A8946B0C; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:14:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (doug@localhost.watson.org [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s7CHEWjI041984; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:14:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) with ESMTP id s7CHEWiB041977; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:14:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:14:32 -0400 (EDT) From: doug Reply-To: doug@safeport.com To: "William A. Mahaffey III" Subject: Re: How to transfer Mail from old machine to new FreeBSD box .... In-Reply-To: <53EA391E.9050609@hiwaay.net> Message-ID: References: <53EA391E.9050609@hiwaay.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (BSF 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (fledge.watson.org [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 12 Aug 2014 13:14:32 -0400 (EDT) Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 18:12:04 -0000 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