Izaac wrote in <20180823T201131Z@localhost>: |On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 05:41:37PM +0000, st...@prd.co.uk wrote: |> During a change of ISPs this week, I had to run mail service on a |> remote VPS, and access emails there. There must be gotchas if I |> simply append the mail files from the VPS to the existing |> corresponding files on our usual mail machine now it's got it Internet |> connection restored. There are always gotchas. Can someone identify |> them for me? | |The mbox format is pretty forgiving. The record separator is literally |'\n\nFrom '. So if you're going to do something like: | | cat /var/mail/foo /var/mail/bar > /var/mail/foobar | |Make sure that there's at least two newlines at the end of /var/mail/foo |so that the first email of /var/mail/bar doesn't get absorbed by the |last email of /var/mail/foo. | |Easily accomplished by: | | cp /var/mail/foo /var/mail/foobar | printf '\n' >> /var/mail/foobar | cat /var/mail/bar >> /var/mail/foobar
Yes. This may of course an empty line to a message which did not have one, but it is unlikely anyone would really care for that. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
