[MLUG] Re: pine on bengal...

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:34:19 -0500, Jonathan King
<EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> Or, rather, pine *not* on bengal.  Here's motd:

[snip]


> Dang.  Double dang.  I have a lot of mail to clear out of my bengal
> account, A whole lot.  No, I don't use Outlook or any of the "usual"
> tools.  I could be persuaded to try Mail on OS X.  But job one is to
> figure out how to slurp up many megs of mail from my inbox.  

Now, I knew the obvious answer to this question, but I had not been
previously able to get pop working from my Mac.  Due in large part, I
suspect, for using the wrong machine name for this.  'Doh!

So that seems to be fixed (I think) but there is still a lot more
email to be transferred...


In the
> olden days, that was as easy as mv-ing the spool file itself, but I
> guess that's not the current best practice.  (Yes, that's a joke, but
> no, I did used to do it that way.)
> 
> So any tips here on real bulk mail removal?  Note: I mean *bulk* here.
>  And I also mean "without setting up or configuring sendmail or the
> like".  Since I could imagine that champagne corks will be flying at
> IATS when I and all of the other weirdo packrats get this done, and
> this is a nice, big push.
> 
> Man, I wish I'd done this last week...
> 
> jking
>
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