Re: [cobalt-users] 550 to 550 migration nightmare

[josh <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 07:48:48AM +1100, Ursula wrote:
[snip]
> The major problem is openwebmail. this puts a symlink
> from mbox to saved-messages in the users mail folder,
> but when the cmu runs it doesn't give the sites and

[snip]
> Any ideas would be appreciated

I had a similar problem. I installed OpenWebMail using the free
package from nuonce.net. 

first in all installations I would suggest install openwebmail before
you move over the users.

Then in the openwebmail.conf file, in my installation it is
/home/openwebmail/cgi-bin/openwebmail/etc/openwebmail.conf 
change
symboliclink mbox yes
to
symboliclink_mbox	no


This makes absolutely no sense for people who are using OpenWebMail
exclusively and I believe it was intended as a way to deal with
popmail users also using OpenWebMail.

Once that is done you can either delete the mbox files, or use find to
do it. I never use find to delete files in mass without a back up but
it can be done, just make sure you script it to check for a
symlink. Deleting a symlink does not delete the file just the link and
the next time a mail message is sent the file will be recreated.

-- 
Josh Kuperman                       
josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx