[clue-talk] moving Mozilla email

[Angelo Bertolli]

Jed S. Baer wrote:

>On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:42:31 -0700 (MST)
>dperkins at techangle.com wrote:
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>>The new computer already has Inbox, Sent, etc.  I need to merge mail
>>from the old system with the new one.  Renaming the mail folders on the
>>old machine seemed to be the easiest way to do this.  I hadn't
>>considered Local Folders.
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>I haven't tried it, but since Mbox files are plain text (albeit maybe with
>encoded stuff in them), but it might be possible to simply append them
>together. Backups will be your friend should you decide to try it out.
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Also, look at the command formail to reformat mboxes