On Thursday 29 November 2007 11:34, Jim Dory wrote:
> Gerald Waugh wrote:
> > 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.
>
> thanks, Jim
Jim,
Yes, but _highly_ recommend you copy all the appropriate files to the new
server first, then use "cat old/home/spool/mail/<user1>
>> /home/sites/*/users/<user1>/mbox
NOTE the double arrow (>>) as this will append to the existing mailbox just in
case it is receiving mail or working while you are doing the copy. Otherwise
you will simply replace (the scp) what is there now.
--
Larry Smith
SysAd ECSIS.NET
sysad (at mark) ecsis.net