Re: [cobalt-users] Append old mail to new?

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Carrie Bartkowiak" <ravencarrie@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Will this work to get all of her mail into one file on the new
> server?:
> 1. Transfer her old mail file to the new server and give it a little
> extension (shirl.old) and mv it over to /home/spool/mail
> 2. Go into /home/spool/mail and try to append the old file to the new
> file with something like:
> shirl.old >> shirl

It works for me and I recommended that solution to a user on-list a few days
ago.  If you're still concerned, create a temporary user and make copy
another user's spool into the temporary user's and append another spool to
it.  If you can access all of the messages you're ready to try on mom's.

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