From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 20 14:15:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from cutter.wantabe.com (cutter.wantabe.com [209.16.8.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 853D037BA0E for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 14:14:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jeffrl@wantabe.com) Received: from cutter.wantabe.com (cutter.wantabe.com [209.16.8.8]) by cutter.wantabe.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA85274; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:14:24 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 16:14:23 -0600 (CST) From: "Jeffrey J. Libman" To: Robert Hough Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Moving mail In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000320171830.00bec720@qserve.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- | |\ +------------------------------+ Jeffrey J. Libman, ops. mgr. | \ | Wantabe Internet Services | Wantabe, Inc. |__\ +------------------------------+ jeffrl@wantabe.com <-----|------> | access web cgi ftp news mail | (281) 493-0718 __,.-=\'`^`'~=-../__,.-= +------------------------------+ 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 > > > > -- > Robert Hough (rch@qserve.net) Qserve Internet, Inc. > http://www.qserve.net/ Ph: (317)802-3036 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message