[NTLUG:Discuss] Moving mail from one server to another?

[Eric Schnoebelen]

"Neil Aggarwal" writes:
- I need to know how to move a user's mailbox from one server to another.
- I tried copying the /var/mail/userName file to the new machine, but
- sendmail did not like that.

	``sendmail did not like that.'':  What did sendmail
say/do?

	I _assume_ you copied the file from /var/mail, make and
make sure the file ownership and modes matched on the new
server.

	Additionally, I presume that the user has been created
on the new machine, and that you have updated any aliases to
point to the new system.

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