T-bird pop mail files -
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sat Jun 26 16:46:42 UTC 2010
On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 12:24 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> On 26/06/10 07:13, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> > On 25/06/10 13:34, Craig White wrote:
> >> should work if you can ping it
> >>
> >> Craig
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > Also, someone suggested using "rsync" [which I asked about several
> > days ago and got no response?]
> >
> > The message suggesting rsync was received in t-bird on the "new"
> > computer [box9] and when I ran:
> >
> > [bobg at box9 ~]$ rsync -av bobg at box6:/home/bobg/.thunderbird .
> >
> > The message was lost. This does a fine job of making both sets of
> > mail files the same, effectively replacing the box9 files with the
> > box6 mail files which was what I wanted to do in the first place.
> > But now I would also like to keep the existing messages and add to
> > box9 any new messages that box6 has collected.
> >
> > If that is possible it is not obvious to me from looking at the man
> > page list of options.
> >
> > What option/s should I be using to copy only the differences?
> >
> > Bob
> >
>
>
> The rsync man page has a very long list of options and the
> functional descriptions are not as clear as they might be but it
> appears that the "-u" option accomplishes what I need, at least it
> worked for a test message I sent to myself and was not over-written
> by rsync.
>
> "-u, --update update only (don't overwrite newer files)"
>
> [bobg at box9 ~]$ rsync -uav bobg at box6:/home/bobg/.thunderbird .
>
> If that is not the best choice I would appreciate advise.
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probably a real bad idea for anything but a one time sync. I don't use
pop3 but I gather that Thunderbird uses an mbox format which means that
you will could easily replace a file and lose e-mails.
The only real solution is to set up an IMAP server.
Craig
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