Generic animation retargeting

I'd like to see a definite answer on this topic. I've searched this forum previously and someone mentioned that "you can't retarget .anim animations..." but I've found nothing in the documentation to confirm or deny this.

Is it possible to place an animation clip (created in Unity's curve editor) onto a generic rig? This assumes the bone structure of the rig matches the bone structure of the model the clip was created for.