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From: Martin Hudec <corwin@aeternal.net>
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Subject: Re: Migrating from postfix to postfix
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Hello,

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.

Check for mbox support in your pop3/imap service as it seems to me that 
you use mbox as mailformat. Also check access rights, check 
configuration of pop3/imap service (whatever software you use for this, 
like Courier, Dovecot etc.).

Martin