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Conference vaxaxp::vmsnotes

Title:	VAX and Alpha VMS
Notice:	This is a new VMSnotes, please read note 2.1
Moderator:	VAXAXP::BERNARDO

Created:	Wed Jan 22 1997
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	703
Total number of notes:	3722

455.0. "Merge mail for 2 different systems ??" by STOSS1::DPROSE () Sat Apr 12 1997 12:47

    I have been using 2 different vms systems for many years. Now one of
    them is going to be shutdown. I would like to merge the VMS mail from
    one system to my vaxmail on the second system and the exsisting mail
    that I have on that system.
    
    If anyone has any ideas on how I might be able to do this I would be
    greatfull
    
    thanks
    Dennis

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
455.1	The MOVE command can do this	MOVIES::PALMER	Ski Forever...	`Sun Apr 13 1997 16:12`	7
	The MOVE command in MAIL works just fine across nodes. Something like: MAIL> MOVE/ALL <target_folder> NODE"user password"::MYDISK:[USER.MAIL]MAIL.MAI seems to do the trick for me. Julian
455.2		EPS::VANDENHEUVEL	Hein	`Mon Apr 14 1997 11:56`	25
	Right, MOVE will work just fine. If the files are already accross (in seperate directories) then you can also simply move the MAIL$*MAI files together and merge the indexed files. The simplest (and slowest) command to do so is: $CONV/MERGE other_mail.MAI MAIL.MAI/STAT/EXCEP=X.MAI Perferably you merge them together using an approximate fdl file: $SET PROT MAIL.MAI $RENA MAIL.MAI MAIL.OLD $CONV/SORT/FAST/STAT/EXCEP=X.MAI other_mail.mai,mail.old mail.new/FDL=mail $RENA MAIL.NEW MAIL.MAI/LOG However... you may want to consider whether merging is really what you want. The resulting mail file and directory miay well become a bit clumsy to manage. You might be better of just leaving the mail from the other system in it's own directory on your current system and using MAIL> SET FILE [.OTHER] to switch to it rapidly. Then in a few years, you can backup/blow away that other directory easily. fwiw, Hein.
455.3		STOSS1::DPROSE		`Mon Apr 14 1997 14:39`	6
	thanks works great