[plug] moving mail in postfix

[Adrian Chadd]

If you have mutt installed, you can do something like this as root?

mutt -f /var/mail/username <- opens mail
T (tag messages matching)
* (ie, tag all)
; s (all tagged messages, save to)
/var/mail/newusername

it should append the messages to the new mailbox with correct(!) locking
for mbox files.

Backup first though!


On Fri, Apr 17, 2009, Jon L. Miller wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
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> Jon L. Miller MCNE CNE CCNA
> East Perth, WA 6004
> WA, Australia
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