[vox-tech] merging mbox archives

eric nelson vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:30:23 -0700


On Thursday 25 July 2002 21:49, 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 gues=
s 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.

Well, I guess I left out something.  My old version was RH 7.1, the new o=
ne is=20
RH 7.3.  In the old one, you have:
=2E..
=2Eoutbox.index
=2E..
outbox

That is outbox is a file, everything is in Mail

In the new one, it's more like:
=2E..
/outbox
=2E..
=2Eoutbox.index

So, outbox is a directory

Are these both mbox format?  Can the old one be converted?