[Dovecot] miugrating mail to new server

Gabe Granger gabe at pancentric.com
Wed Jun 22 18:14:14 EEST 2005


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?

Any help, advise would be great.

Gabe


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