On 2/4/2012 1:51 μμ, Spyros Tsiolis wrote: > I did "cp -r" actually and kept the old mailboxes nearby > just in case. If on CentOS/RHEL (don't know for other systems), you could try using explicitly: /bin/cp -pr for better results, because cp is aliased. You might already be aware of this, but just in case... Nick