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Title:** Hackers **
Moderator:XDELTA::HOFFMAN
Created:Mon Feb 01 1988
Last Modified:Tue May 27 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1838
Total number of notes:13578

1834.0. "merge mail between 2 systems" by STOSS1::DPROSE () Fri Apr 11 1997 21:53

    I need to move a bunch of vms mail from one system to another merging
    the two mail systems. Does anyone have a tools that will do this so
    that I dont have to gone through each message a forward them.
    
    
    Dennis
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1834.1Don't think that this belongs here...SMURF::FENSTERYaacov Fenster - System Engineering, Troubleshooting and other mFri Apr 11 1997 22:1513
                                                <<< Note 1834.0 by STOSS1::DPROSE >>>
                                                 -< merge mail between 2 systems >-
    
    [I don't think that this is a topic but Hackers, but here goes:]
    
    a) Backup all the mail directories and copy them over to the new system
    in some other area.
    b) Define logical names to point to each mail file since they aren't
    under the "mail directory".
    c) For each of the old mail files do:
    c.1) sel/all 
    c.2) move/all "New Folder" "New Mail file"
    
1834.2AUSS::GARSONDECcharity Program OfficeSun Apr 13 1997 22:4824
    re .1
    
    Why logical names?
    
    re .*
    
    Since MAIL supports separate mail files, shouldn't one be able to use
    BACKUP to copy the mail files on the source system to a separate
    directory on the destination system and then, in MAIL,
    
    SET FILE copied
    
    and
    
    MOVE/ALL y original
    
    for each folder, y, in the copied mail file.
    
    Failing that, if you want to get more into HACKERS, what about just
    MERGEing the two MAIL.MAI files and copying all the MAIL$*.MAI files
    into one directory. I have done something like this previously and
    vaguely remember that one can get a few errors but it does 99% of the
    job.
    
1834.3MOVIES::WIDDOWSONRod OpenVMS Engineering. Project RockMon Apr 14 1997 08:341
    This is undergoing conversation in vmsnotes....
1834.4Pointers...XDELTA::HOFFMANSteve, OpenVMS EngineeringMon Apr 14 1997 13:5123
:    This is undergoing conversation in vmsnotes....

    VMSMAIL is a better spot.

    And merging of mail files has also been discussed in the
    VMSZOO::VMSMAIL notes conference.

    84     GEM::ANDY_LESLIE  27-MAY-1986     2  MERGE FOLDERS wish
   196   ISWSW::VILAINMI     25-NOV-1986     5  MERGE of two VMSmail accounts
   357     UFP::WICKERT      28-SEP-1987     7  Two VMSMAIL.DATs - can they be 
   732    7300::RWHEELER     23-MAY-1989     1  Merging 2 VMSMAIL_PROFILE.DATA 
  1296                       12-NOV-1991     0  (These notes were merged into t
  1451   TWYLA::LOEW         23-SEP-1992     3  Merge different Mail files?
  1612  KERNEL::CURRENL      14-DEC-1993     3  messages merged together

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