From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 15 14:11:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 954CF37B400 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 14:11:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b164.otenet.gr [212.205.244.172]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3FLBEL3021363; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 00:11:17 +0300 (EEST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (hades [127.0.0.1]) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3FLB60L012520; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 00:11:13 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g3FJ0ega011842; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 22:00:40 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 22:00:40 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: ann kok Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail box question Message-ID: <20020415190040.GI6333@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020415150353.79226.qmail@web20109.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020415150353.79226.qmail@web20109.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-04-15 08:03, ann kok wrote: > I have two mails (ann and angel) under /var/spool/mail > I want to group in one 'ann' all mails are in ann's > mailbox > Can I use this command cat angel >> ann? Yes, you can. UNIX mbox format is a plain text file with all the messages concatenated together, one after the other. What you did is not a nice idea though for other reasons. You should first make sure that nobody tries to deliver mail to any of the two mailboxes, since Sendmail might try to deliver mail while the cat command is still running and will make a mess of the destination mailbox. > But I couldn't read angel's mail after doing it from > ann's mail box How did you try to read the mailbox? What errors did you get? Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message