From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 16:40:38 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 D81D99E6 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 16:40:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [198.74.231.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB1992E5E for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 16:40:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [198.74.231.63]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6556246B53 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 12:40:32 -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 s7EGeWKk002375 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 12:40:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) with ESMTP id s7EGeWBb002372 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2014 12:40:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 12:40:32 -0400 (EDT) From: doug@safeport.com X-X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: doug@fledge.watson.org To: FreeBSD Questions !!!! Subject: Re: How to transfer Mail from old machine to new FreeBSD box .... In-Reply-To: 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]); Thu, 14 Aug 2014 12:40:32 -0400 (EDT) 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: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 16:40:38 -0000 On Tue, 12 Aug 2014, doug wrote: > 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 Did you get this done? If not I can give some help using the above utility.