Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:12:18 -0600 (CST) From: Marius Strom <marius@alpha1.net> To: Robert Hough <rch@qserve.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0003201610010.43091-100000@beaker.alpha1.net> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000320171830.00bec720@qserve.net>
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Robert, If you are continuing with standard V7 spool files, scp and perms maybe the easiest way: newmail# scp user@oldmail:/var/spool/mail/* /var/spool/mail .... newmail# cd /var/spool/mail newmail# for i in *; do chown $i $i chgrp mail $i done If you're switching from V7 to mbox or some other format, I'd recommend formail(1) (note there's only one m in formail) -- Marius Strom <marius@alpha1.net> Professional Geek/Unix System Administrator Alpha1 Internet <http://www.alpha1.net>; http://www.marius.org/marius.pgp 0x42C74CBA *UPDATED PGP KEY 2/24/2000* In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice... ...In practice, there is a big difference. On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Robert Hough wrote: > I'm currently moving all of our users off a very old, and very obsolete > machine. I'm looking for a good way of moving the actual mail from the > older server to the new. My first thought was to just scp it all over, the > correct the permissions, but that seems like a serious amount of work. My > second thought was using fetchmail, but that seems to be just as much of a > headache. > > So... Is there a better way of going about this? I'm prepared to do any of > the above, but figured I would email and see if anyone else had some ideas > on the subject. If you've done something like this in the past, or are > planning on it in the future, I'd be eager to see your approach. Thanks > > > > -- > Robert Hough (rch@qserve.net) Qserve Internet, Inc. > http://www.qserve.net/ Ph: (317)802-3036 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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