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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	huh? Here's the 'offical way'. -b) make sure all adresses and so on have been created on the new server. -a) use 'sendmail' on the new server to localy send a test mail to each account (which will also make sure the maildirs are where they need to be) a) update dns to point to new mail server b) Suspend mail server on old server (don't worry, rfc compliant mailservers will try again if they got the old ip due to dns time to live) c) tar and gzip/bzip (tar -cjf old mail dirs d) use ssh/sftp to log into new server (from the old one. Yes this means you'll have a ssh connection inside another.) and transfer files e) ungzip and untar (tar -xjf), this will not override new mails ( filenames in maildir are done via timestamps) Probably best to keep all imaps shut down during this as not to confuse users ( 'no connection/timeout' is way better than 'hey dude, where are my mails!!!) So long, ->Tyberius Prime Loading...
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