Retrieving emails from a dead server's hard drive

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 04:30:15PM -0500, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> One thing that worries me is that the hostnames of the old server and my
> desktop differ, so the filenames in the maildirs, which include the
> hostname, will not be uniform.  I will test, and report back.

Doesn't matter.  They are just unique names.  They can be anything.
Maildir doesn't care.  You can rename them if you want (rename command
is handy for partial rename of a bunch of files).

> The beep is, annoyingly, the normal, expected beep.  When it beeps -
> sometimes when I power cycled it, the PS would spin up, but there would
> be no beep.  (Right now there is no hard drive in the box, so there is
> little reason to try booting it)

Well could be cpu, motherboard, ram, video.  Who knows.

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Len Sorensen
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