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RE: [cobalt-developers] copy emails

.forward is the best option.

Jonothon Ortiz
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Macromedia Alliance Partners

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-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerald
Waugh
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 7:39 AM
To: cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] copy emails


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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