[plug] moving mail in postfix

[W.Kenworthy]

The easiest way is to add the old account to the new users mail client
(presumably its just username/password?, most email clients take
multiple accounts.) and then dragndrop the mail - takes seconds once the
account is added.  Then just remove the account.

BillK

On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 11:19 +0800, Jon L. Miller wrote:
> 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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