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

[Neil Aggarwal]

Eric:

Last time I tried it, it changed to to neil.bogus and I did not
get my messages.  I just tried it now and it worked fine.

It must have been the permissions.

THanks,
	Neil.

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Neil Aggarwal
JAMM Consulting, Inc.    (972) 612-6056, http://www.JAMMConsulting.com
Custom Internet Development    Websites, Ecommerce, Java, databases


> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf
> Of Eric Schnoebelen
> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 4:05 PM
> To: discuss at ntlug.org
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Moving mail from one server to another? 
> 
> 
> 
> "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.
> 
> --
> Eric Schnoebelen		eric at cirr.com		http://www.cirr.com
>     The most feared words in any (large) organization: 
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