Re: [cobalt-developers] copy emails

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, John P. Looney wrote:

> 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.
>

Shut sendmail down during the changeover period.

Gerald
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