Best way to move large Maildir to another machine?

[ಚಿರಾಗ್ ನಟರಾಜ್]

Hi!

I've moved/renamed/backed up/restored Maildirs which contain files with the hostname in the file name and it really doesn't matter afaict. getmail, procmail, etc just want a way to construct a unique filename, so they use the hostname as part of it. Your mail reader shouldn't care what the files are named, since it should be parsing the message itself (including headers) to figure out the information to display. One caveat: Maildir uses the last parts of the file name to store flags like replied, flagged, and so on, so the file names *do* matter, just not in this context.

HTH!

- Chiraag
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25/11/20 22:30 ನಲ್ಲಿ, Dave Woodfall <dave at tty1.uk> ಬರೆದರು:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a Maildir folder which I want to move to another machine:
> about 830M with 29000 messages.
> 
> Would just rsync'ing or scp'ing be OK?
> 
> I'm asking because I noticed that either procmail or getmail puts the
> hostname in the file names, and I wondered if this would cause
> problems at the other end or not when I've setup getmail+procmail on
> it?
> 
> Renaming all the files is possible I guess, but would be a task.
> 
> --
> Dave
> 
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