> > Jim Dory wrote Wednesday, November 28, 2007 7:23 PM
> >
> >> I've spent a day or so (will be two days by tomorrow) so users of a
> >> virtual site are getting new emails onto the server since I've
> >> cmuImported from the old raq. I'm I can just copy their email
> >> over but
> >> not sure where they are on the new bluequartz server. On
> the raq, I
> >> believe they are here:
> >> /home/spool/mail/
> >> as that seems like were all the users files are: one file for
> >> each user
> >> with time stamps current and file size ranging from zero (active
> >> downloaders) to several megabytes.
> >>
> >> The new server has a /home/spool/ directory but no mail or
> >> users there.
> >> I do have MailScanner installed but haven't used it yet, and
> >> openwebmail
> >> is installed.
> >>
> >
> > The email should have moved with cmuImport.
> > On the CBQ server the mail will be at;
> > ls -l /home/sites/*/users/*/mbox
> >
> > Gerald
> >
> >
> >
> Thanks Larry and Gerald - you guys are a great resource.
>
> Yes, the mail moved with the cmuImport. However, due to
> several problems
> I was unable to immediately put the new server in service. It
> has been
> two days of new mail on the old server now which is still in
> service, so
> the two servers are no longer in sync mail-wise. Sorry I wasn't more
> clear. I am hoping I can just copy the mail files over to the new by
> hand now. On the old server, it looks like the mailboxes are
> files that
> are named after the user. On the new, it is mbox. So I can just do a
> (from new server):
> scp root@oldserver:old/home/spool/mail/<user1>
> /home/sites/*/users/<user1>/mbox
> for each user whose mailbox has changed and it should work. I
> think it
> will only be for possibly less than half a dozen users, as
> most download
> to their pc's.
>
Not sure that just copying the files is a good idea, I think format is
different.
If only a few users I would use formail.
Make sure the old-server is not receiving mail for the domain.
Login to old server su to root
formail -s sendmail <user1> (at mark) new-server.tld < /home/spool/mail/<user1>
Gerald
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