Subject: folder transfer

From: Kevin Franken <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 21:35:32 -0500 (CDT)

Is there a way to send/transfer a folder (full of msgs) from one Unix
(Pine) email account to another Unix (Pine) email account?  I am familiar
with FTP, but I have only downloaded folders from my email account to my
hard drive - I have not transferred folders from one email account to
another.

Thanks!

KF

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From: "S.Toms" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 21:11:29 -0700 (PDT)

On Fri, 12 May 2000, Kevin Franken wrote:

kf> Is there a way to send/transfer a folder (full of msgs) from one Unix
kf> (Pine) email account to another Unix (Pine) email account?  I am familiar
kf> with FTP, but I have only downloaded folders from my email account to my
kf> hard drive - I have not transferred folders from one email account to
kf> another.
kf> 

  Well seeing as how the messages are all contained in a text file, you
can simply copy the file to another system and try to view it with the
mailer on that system. It should do what needs to be done to make it
viewable, be it netscape, pine, mutt or what have you.
  I've done it that way myself a number of times without any problems and
if a problem does popup, you still have the original on the first system.

kf> Thanks!
kf> 
kf> KF
kf> 
kf> 
kf> 

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From: Kevin Franken <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 02:20:11 -0500 (CDT)

> if a problem does popup, you still have the original on the first system.

How?  Are you referring to FTP?  I want to save the Unix/Pine format of
the folders and messages - I want the messages to remain as they are in my
first Unix/Pine account - I don't want to lump them all together into one
VERY long text file.  I want the format of both folders to be the same -
the original and the copy.  I want to "forward" or send a Unix/Pine folder
from one email account to another.  Is this possible via Unix/Pine email?  

KF

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From: "S.Toms" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 07:18:07 -0700 (PDT)

On Sat, 13 May 2000, Kevin Franken wrote:

kf> On Fri, 12 May 2000, S.Toms wrote:
kf> 
kf> > On Fri, 12 May 2000, Kevin Franken wrote:
kf> > 
kf> > kf> Is there a way to send/transfer a folder (full of msgs) from one Unix
kf> > kf> (Pine) email account to another Unix (Pine) email account?  I am familiar
kf> > kf> with FTP, but I have only downloaded folders from my email account to my
kf> > kf> hard drive - I have not transferred folders from one email account to
kf> > kf> another.
kf> > kf> 
kf> > 

  Yep, you can FTP it or if it's on the same network with an NFS
connection you can simply cp it to the new destination. It will retain
which messages have been read and which havn't, You shouldn't notice a
difference. (At least this was the case with pine and mutt)
  Quick question, when you you refer to a folder full of messages, you are
referring to something like the Inbox, Sent, save-messages type folders,
right? In which case those are text files, their not really folders except
to the program viewing them, ie: pine, mutt, netscape, etc.. but the
system it self sees simply a text file which contains all the messages.

kf> >   Well seeing as how the messages are all contained in a text file, you
kf> > can simply copy the file to another system and try to view it with the
kf> > mailer on that system. It should do what needs to be done to make it
kf> > viewable, be it netscape, pine, mutt or what have you.
kf> >   I've done it that way myself a number of times without any problems and
kf> > if a problem does popup, you still have the original on the first system.
kf> 
kf> How?  Are you referring to FTP?  I want to save the Unix/Pine format of
kf> the folders and messages - I want the messages to remain as they are in my
kf> first Unix/Pine account - I don't want to lump them all together into one
kf> VERY long text file.  I want the format of both folders to be the same -
kf> the original and the copy.  I want to "forward" or send a Unix/Pine folder
kf> from one email account to another.  Is this possible via Unix/Pine email?  
kf> 
kf> KF
kf> 
kf>

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From: Satya <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 21:26:05 +0530 (IST)

>from one email account to another.  Is this possible via Unix/Pine email?  

There is a file in your $HOME/mail directory. This file has the same name
as the folder you are trying to copy. Copy[0] the file to wherever the
other account keeps its mail. That's all.

[0] or FTP or mail or whatever. It's a file, for Bob's sake.

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From: Kevin Franken <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 00:38:24 -0500 (CDT)

Thank you for your suggestions.  Yes, FTP did work in transfering the
folder with its msgs to another Unix/Pine account, preserving everything
like I wanted.  I was pleasantly surprised.

K

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From: Walt Smith <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 12:13:17 -0400 (EDT)

I've just moved from one Unix system to another.  What I do is establish a
binary FTP connection between the two systems and then transfer the files
... that's all there is to it.  It makes it a lot simpler if you used the
CD and LCD commands to be in the mail directories on each system.  One
binary rather than ASCII transfer mode because I think there are some
binary controls in those files that may not travel well if you don't.  I
moved almost a hundred Pine mail folders this way just a couple of weeks
ago.

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