Moving to as new server

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Mon Apr 25 07:28:48 UTC 2016


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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.

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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