How to transfer Mail from old machine to new FreeBSD box ....

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:56:14AM -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> 
> 
> .... Well, I am down to the snorting post, the last task I need to 
> complete before putting my new FreeBSD 9.3 box into service, replacing 
> this one (AMD64X2 3800+, FC14 64-bit, terminally patched up several 
> years ago). Unfortunately, it looks like a bit of a doozy. I need to get 
> the Mail directory from the old machine to the new one. To start with, I 
> just copied the whole thing. 35 min. later when it was done, I invoked 
> T-bird on the FreeBSD box & none of the Mail-directory was visible :-/. 
> That method worked AOK the last time I used it, 10+ years ago when I put 
> the old box into service :-). That was also the last time I tried, last 
> time I needed to do that. Is what I am doing supposed to work ? If not, 
> how am I supposed to do this ? Mind you, there are yearly archives going 
> back into the '90's, which I want preserved. The whole Mail directory is 
> ~20 GiB :-/ .... thunderbird.x86_64 17.0.7-1.fc14.remi on the Fedora 
> box, thunderbird 31 on the FreeBSD (box std,) .... TIA for any pointers ....

Check the permissions and ownership on the folders and files. Even if your
username and group name are the same, the *numerical* UID and GID might be
different.

Is thunderbird configured the same on both machines.


Roland
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