[Dovecot] miugrating mail to new server

Dominic Marks dom at goodforbusiness.co.uk
Wed Jun 22 19:41:11 EEST 2005


On Wednesday 22 June 2005 16:14, Gabe Granger wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I've just a new server to help with migration of our email, the old
> email server is using mbox and the new is using Maildir.  I've
> managed to some user mail migrated fine.  The new server is only a
> temp server as I have too many users to migrate easily in one go(Also
> I want to nuke the current mailserver, remove SuSE and install Debian
> on it).  So what i'm doing it moving users one by one to temp server
> and converting to Maildir.  My question is.
>
> I notice that all email files in maildir format end with .<host> when
> I go to migrate everything to back over to the original server is
> this going to cause me problem? Ie will the original server now have
> to be named the same as the temp server so that the maildir format
> files end with the same .<host>  or does that not matter?

You don't need to worry about this. As long as the names are unique
in the maildir, you won't have problems.

> Any help, advise would be great.
>
> Gabe

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Dominic
GoodforBusiness.co.uk
I.T. Services for SMEs in the UK.



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