[plug] moving mail in postfix

[Jon L. Miller]

It was nothing more than a user who has since left the company e-mails
being added to the office admins mailbox, when she does a Send/Receive in
OL2K3 it'll come down and since it's just the one time it will not cause
any issues.

On Fri, April 17, 2009 11:11, ian at iball.id.au wrote:
> 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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Regards,

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Jon L. Miller MCNE CNE CCNA
East Perth, WA 6004
WA, Australia
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