Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 15:12:00 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to transfer Mail from old machine to new FreeBSD box .... Message-ID: <53EA7510.6020109@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <CA%2Bg%2BBvjKEvuZ9Tv5c5R74ayakiGN2mQUv4jdeP6HAa8S_1=Ddw@mail.gmail.com> References: <53EA391E.9050609@hiwaay.net> <7A2FA757-C28D-4441-9E00-F745468EBF96@kraus-haus.org> <53EA3BCC.9010403@hiwaay.net> <CA%2Bg%2BBvjKEvuZ9Tv5c5R74ayakiGN2mQUv4jdeP6HAa8S_1=Ddw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 08/12/14 11:33, Olivier Nicole wrote: > William, > >>>> .... 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 …. >>> How is your client accessing the email? IMAP? >>> >>> Did you remember to install and setup your IMAP server? I use dovecot. >>> Remember to use the same format on the new box (either MailDir or Mailbox, >>> whichever you used on the old). >>> >>> Or just setup the IMAP server on the new box, configure your email client >>> to see both, and use it to move the email over. >>> >>> -- >>> Paul Kraus >>> paul@kraus-haus.org >>> >>> >> >> I am retreiving mail from my ISP using their POP3 server, as per the last >> 20-ish years. T-bird stashes it iv the Mail directory under my user .... No >> IMAP involved that I know off :-/ ???? > > Your first message was really unclear, so Paul assumed you were trying > to set-up an email server, while all you are doing is an email client. > > First of all, with your new machine, can you access the POP3 server of > your ISP, can you read mail from there? Can you send mail too? > > Once that is working, create a new test mail folder, find out where > Tbird did create that mail folder and copy your mail from the old > machine to the new machine with the same scheme as the new test > folder. > > Bests, > > Olivier > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Good call, old box used .../Mail/mail.hiwaay.net, new one uses .../Mail/pop3.hiwaay.net .... I just got everything copied & it looks good ....
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