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Re: [cobalt-developers] copy emails



On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 03:38:03AM -0400, Grant mentioned:
> Easy, just type this in to the terminal, SSH (not telnet, but same
> function).  
> 
>  cd /var/spool/mail/
>  mv thenameoftheuser thenewnameoftheuser
> Once you have changed accounts, just reverse the procedure ie
>  mv thenewnameoftheuser thenameoftheuser
> 
> That's it, it will all read in like normal.

 ...and hope that no email comes in for thenameoftheuser in the meantime,
or you'll just have deleted it.

John