Moving mail folders from daVinci

If you have an existing account on davinci and you want to make your existing mailboxes accessible on mail.scs.carleton.ca then you can do the following.

  1. zip or tar your mail folders
  2. copy the files to access.scs.carleton.ca
  3. extract your mail folders

Example:

User jdoe is using daVinci.scs.carleton.ca and wants to use mail.scs.carleton.ca and have his davinci mail boxes accessible.

[jdoe@zeta03 ~]$ tar -cvf old_mail.tar ~/mail/
[jdoe@zeta03 ~]$ scp old_mail.tar access:.
[jdoe@zeta03 ~]$ ssh access.scs.carleton.ca
[jdoe@access ~]$ tar -xvf old_mail.tar

Once you connect to mail.scs.carleton.ca you can then import your mail folders from your home directory.

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services/moving_mail_folders.txt · Last modified: 2009/05/14 14:36 by admin