[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...