From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 12 19:16:45 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 04BF1500 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 19:16:45 +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 C542922BC for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 19:16:44 +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 s7CJGgiL014615 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 14:16:42 -0500 Message-ID: <53EA6991.4070101@hiwaay.net> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 14:22:57 -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> <20140812185621.GA7166@slackbox.erewhon.home> In-Reply-To: <20140812185621.GA7166@slackbox.erewhon.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 19:16:45 -0000 On 08/12/14 13:56, Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:56:14AM -0500, 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 .... > Check the permissions and ownership on the folders and files. Even if your > username and group name are the same, the *numerical* UID and GID might be > different. > > Is thunderbird configured the same on both machines. > > > Roland numerical UIDs & GIDs are identical. Both T-birds identical as near as I can tell, a bit touch going back & forth w/ 2 machines :-/ .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.