I will shortly have to replace the OS on my machine. For various reasons, I will not be able to use a program like “imapsync” to transfer my documents to a new server. All of the mail folders on my present PC are stored under “/var/mail/vmail”. If I copied all of the folders under “vmail” and moved them to the new PC, would Dovecot be able to access them normally? Dovecot would not be running while I moved the files.
Thanks
I use 'rsync' as a failover tool, never a problem.
On 4/24/2016 5:42 AM, Jerry wrote:
I will shortly have to replace the OS on my machine. For various reasons, I will not be able to use a program like “imapsync” to transfer my documents to a new server. All of the mail folders on my present PC are stored under “/var/mail/vmail”. If I copied all of the folders under “vmail” and moved them to the new PC, would Dovecot be able to access them normally? Dovecot would not be running while I moved the files.
Thanks
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On Sun, 24 Apr 2016, Jerry wrote:
I will shortly have to replace the OS on my machine. For various reasons, I will not be able to use a program like “imapsync” to transfer my documents to a new server. All of the mail folders on my present PC are stored under “/var/mail/vmail”. If I copied all of the folders under “vmail” and moved them to the new PC, would Dovecot be able to access them normally? Dovecot would not be running while I moved the files.
if the access permissions and Dovecot config keeps the same, there should be no problem.
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