[Wolves] Switching servers

Wayne Morris wayne at machx.co.uk
Wed Mar 2 10:29:17 GMT 2005


Wayne Morris wrote:

> I'm working my way thru swopping data from one that won't boot, to a 
> new one.
> Did mysql very easily (below for record in case anyone wants to know 
> how).
> About to do mail.
> Would I be right in thinking that as mail is just a flat file , 
> copying it to the relevant directory on new machine will make it 
> readable as normal?
> As the user already exists and has mail on new machine, if I append 
> the contents of 'oldmail' to the end of  'newmail', will both sets of 
> email appear
> in inbox correctly?
>
Ok, copying files and/or appending them together seems to work ok, but I 
can't find the 'inbox' messages.
My imap folders are there in /home/wayne/ but can't find the messages 
that should be in the default inbox.
Any idea where these are?



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