[wplug] cp Maildir to new machine

[Bill Moran]

"Scott F. Kiesling" <kiesling+ at pitt.edu> wrote:

> Hi-
> 
> I just got a new laptop (IBM T42, very nice) and have
> installed Gentoo. I've got mutt, etc up and running, but
> would like to get my mail off my old machine, which will not
> connect to the net (hence new laptop). I can copy to a USB
> drive and then copy from that to my new machine.
> 
> I am having trouble getting past the suffixes at the end of
> Maildir files (e.g., "<filename>:2,S"). cp will not copy
> these, tar will not tar them, and I can't find a script to
> do it for me, except at the Google cache below, which
> doesn't seem to work. Perhaps someone help, either with
> clever suggestions or the way I would go about making a
> script that deals with these suffixes.

Can you give a little more detail on what is going wrong?

I use tar and cp to manipulate (and back up) my Maildir all the
time.  I just tested it and all files were copied.

cp -Rp /path/to/Maildir /tmp/.

Worked fine.

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Bill Moran
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