[vox-tech] merging mbox archives
Shawn P. Neugebauer
vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Fri, 26 Jul 2002 00:54:13 -0700
On Thursday 25 July 2002 09:49 pm, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting eric nelson (en77@attbi.com):
> > I got a new hard drive. My old mail is in /mnt/home/en/Mail. I guess it
> > is mbox format (I use kmail). Is there an easy way to merge the old mail
> > w/ the new one?
>
> Just cat the two mboxes together. I'm not kidding.
What about the index files? Does it detect that they need to be re-built?
A long time ago, kmail used to have problems if the index files were
out of sync with the mail files, but that was a long time ago...