Joey Officer wrote:
>
> I’m not sure how to approach this problem, and am looking for some 
> direction.
>
> We used to run Courier as our primary mail server and have since 
> migrated from Courier to Exchange. During the migration we moved all 
> active users’ mailboxes to the new server, and archived all employees’ 
> folders who had left the company (regardless of reason).
>
> That being said, we kept the courier mail server as a VM for some 
> time, but removed the VM awhile ago, although we kept the mail 
> folders. Long-story-short, I was asked yesterday to retrieve some 
> information from one of the archived employee files, and find myself 
> without a mail server to connect to. I have the user’s Maildir folder 
> and I can see the files I’m looking for (emails and attachments) but 
> I’m not sure how to get them from flat file to Outlook or Thunderbird, 
> or Gmail, or ???
>
> Any suggestions?
>

Activate the imap server and configure a mail client to connect to it.

Or just mail the file back to yourself:

sendmail yourem...@company.com < filewiththeemail.msg

If there is not an active MTA on the machine, you can always ftp or 
rsync the file over to a machine that is capable of sending it.

-- 
Bowie

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