On 10/25/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Curtis Maloney</b> <<a href="mailto:cmaloney@cardgate.net">cmaloney@cardgate.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Alan Mead wrote:<br>> 1. Can I tar my ~/mail directory on serverX.com, untar it on a different<br>> physical serverY.com (initially with a different domain name), and still see<br>> my mail when I access <a href="http://imap.serverY.com">
imap.serverY.com</a> <<a href="http://imap.serverY.com">http://imap.serverY.com</a>> (dovecot's<br>> running on serverY.com .. but let me know if there are any tricks that I<br>> need to make this work).<br><br>
Sure can. Dovecot doesn't care where you mail came from, or who it was sent to.<br> Just that it's where you told it to look for it.<br><br>> One of the reasons I have question #1 is that the server name seems to be<br>
> part of the email file names...<br>><br>> amead:/home/amead> ls mail/cur | head -2<br>> 2022292282.22297_0.vulcan.rootr.net:2,S<br>> 2022312282.3225_0.vulcan.rootr.net:2,S<br><br>This is part of the Maildir naming algorithm, and is used to generate "unique"
<br>message file names.</blockquote><div><br>
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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!?<br>
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-Alan<br>
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