From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 7 19:37:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4044916A4DF for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 19:37:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DFFB43D58 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 19:37:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin03-en2 [10.13.10.148]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout08/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k87JbG2E029372; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 12:37:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [17.214.13.96] (a17-214-13-96.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin03/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k87JbD8N003863; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 12:37:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 12:37:13 -0700 To: Hair X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAA+k= X-Language-Identified: TRUE Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Migrating from postfix to postfix X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 19:37:44 -0000 On Sep 7, 2006, at 12:07 PM, Hair wrote: > Hello, the company I work for has decided to host web and mail > internally > instead of paying a hosting company. I have gotten freebsd set up and > postfix and squirrelmail up and running. Is there a way to migrate > saved > messages from the old server to the new one? I tried simply stopping > postfix on both servers, copy /var/mail/username and restart > postfix, but > the copied mail does not show up. Thanks. Of course, you realize that Postfix is only an MTA; you probably need something like an IMAP or POP3 server for most MUA's to access the stored email...? And if you have been using POP3 in the past, normally the email is kept on the local user machines and not on the mail server; in that case, you will have to upload the saved email from their local user machines back to the mailhost you are setting up. -- -Chuck