[plug] moving mail in postfix

[ian at iball.id.au]

Out of curiousity, would simply appending the old mbox file to the new mbox
file cause any issues, since the emails would not be sequential in the file
(ie: old mail would appear after new mail)?

There is a lot to be said for Maildir's instead of Mboxes :)

--Ian


On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:00:46 +0800 (WST), Matt Kemner
<zombie at penguincare.com.au> wrote:
> Hi Jon
> 
> On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, quoth Jon L. Miller:
> 
>> We have a mailbox that has mail in /var/mail/username that we would like
>> to move to another user.  Is there a way to move this file (username) to
>> another? Is this some sort of copy command to append the file to the new
>> user?  I'm using aliase to redirect any new mail, but currently we want
>> to
>> see the old mail mail.
> 
> It's just a text file, so you can append it using normal unix tools
> 
> eg:
> 
> cat /var/mail/oldusername >> /var/mail/newusername
> 
> The >> means append, single > means overwrite
> 
>  - Matt
> 
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