[Dovecot] Two "pre-migration" questions

[Alan Premselaar]

Alan Mead wrote:
> On 10/25/05, *Curtis Maloney* <cmaloney at cardgate.net 
> <mailto:cmaloney at cardgate.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Alan Mead wrote:
>      > 1. Can I tar my ~/mail directory on serverX.com, untar it on a
>     different
>      > physical serverY.com (initially with a different domain name),
>     and still see
>      > my mail when I access imap.serverY.com <http://imap.serverY.com>
>     <http://imap.serverY.com> (dovecot's
>      > running on serverY.com .. but let me know if there are any tricks
>     that I
>      > need to make this work).
> 
>     Sure can.  Dovecot doesn't care where you mail came from, or who it
>     was sent to.
>       Just that it's where you told it to look for it.
> 
>      > One of the reasons I have question #1 is that the server name
>     seems to be
>      > part of the email file names...
>      >
>      > amead:/home/amead> ls mail/cur | head -2
>      > 2022292282.22297_0.vulcan.rootr.net:2,S
>      > 2022312282.3225_0.vulcan.rootr.net:2,S
> 
>     This is part of the Maildir naming algorithm, and is used to
>     generate "unique"
>     message file names.
> 
> 
> 
> Curtis, many thanks for your  reply!  Clarification: Let's assume I'm a 
> *complete moron* about email... Do I need to modify the naming of the 
> files?  Or is there anything else about moving these files that would be 
> obvious to a non-moron, but not to me?  It's really as simple as tar'ing 
> them on the old server and untar'ing them on the new server!?
> 
> -Alan

Alan,

  I think this one's fairly obvious ... obvious enough to miss it easily.
be sure to check your file permissions once you've copied the files to 
their final destination.

Alan