Date:  Mon, 3 Dec 2007 23:43:24 -0500
From:  "Mitchell Rothschild" <mjr (at mark) misswebhost.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:11343] Re: how to move mail spools over from raq to MSI server
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Thank you
Mitch

On Saturday 01 December 2007 19:38, Mitchell Rothschild wrote:
> Jim,
>
>   Yes, but _highly_ recommend you copy all the appropriate files to 
> the new server first, then use "cat old/home/spool/mail/<user1> >> 
> /home/sites/*/users/<user1>/mbox NOTE the double arrow (>>) as this 
> will append to the existing mailbox just in case it is receiving mail 
> or working while you are doing the copy.
> Otherwise you will simply replace (the scp) what is there now.
>
> Hi,
>
> This works great....
> After I copy the files over and add the mail to the new files.
> How can I erase the mail in the old file..this way I can check the 
> next day and do the process over to catch any mail from dns servers 
> still delivering mail to the old server.
>

Jim,

  Quite a few ways to do this also, but easiest (to me) is just "  >
old/home/spool/mail/<user1>"
Note the single arrow.  That copies "nothing" (null) to the existing mailbox
essentially emptying the file but leaving the permissions and such alone.

--
Larry Smith
SysAd ECSIS.NET
sysad (at mark) ecsis.net