Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:14:23 -0600 (CST) From: "Jeffrey J. Libman" <jeffrl@wantabe.com> To: Robert Hough <rch@qserve.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003201613200.81277-100000@cutter.wantabe.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000320171830.00bec720@qserve.net>
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i simply nfs mounted the mail directory to the new system, shutdown
sendmail on the old, then used pax:
pax -r -w -pe * /var/mail
-pe means basicly: preserve everything.
ymmv.
cheers,
jeff
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On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Robert Hough wrote:
> I'm currently moving all of our users off a very old, and very obsolete
> machine. I'm looking for a good way of moving the actual mail from the
> older server to the new. My first thought was to just scp it all over, the
> correct the permissions, but that seems like a serious amount of work. My
> second thought was using fetchmail, but that seems to be just as much of a
> headache.
>
> So... Is there a better way of going about this? I'm prepared to do any of
> the above, but figured I would email and see if anyone else had some ideas
> on the subject. If you've done something like this in the past, or are
> planning on it in the future, I'd be eager to see your approach. Thanks
>
>
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> http://www.qserve.net/ Ph: (317)802-3036
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