Re: [cobalt-users] Moving mail content to another system

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"William J.A. Brillinger" wrote:

> If you keep the user names the same all you should have to do is copy the
> mail spools into the appropriate place on the new machine.
> 
> /home/spool/mail on the raq.

While this would appear to work if the ensim server doesn't use maildir
format for storing email, it won't if it does.  I'm not sure about
Ensim; I know that Plesk uses maildir format.

And of course rather than just copying the files, one should shut down
the mailserver, then append the files (echo oldfile >> newfile), then
restart the mailserver, to make sure no mail is lost.

Jeff
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