Sebastian Lechte wrote: > hi everyone, > > > i have rented multiple root-servers but handle mail on a single machine > running courier (incl. imap). i recently grew tired of the bad support > at provider A and decided to move the services running on that machine, > which basically is the mailserver and some supplementary things, to > another machine at provider B. > > i looked into the maildir-folders and noticed the filenames all > containing the machine's hostname. i also vaguely remember that some MTA > somehow linked messagequeue-files to the inode-numbers on disk where > they are located, but that could have been qmail, which i ran prior to > courier. > > > the question is: can i move the files to the new machine without any > consequences, or do i have to make certain changes to the files so that > all courier-services on the new machine recognize them?
The maildirs can be moved over as-is without any problems. Courier doesn't care what the filenames are as long as they are unique. I have done this a couple of times here while migrating machines. > can this even be done with the message-queue (not sooo important, > because i can flush it)? In this case, the filename IS tied to the inode, so a direct copy won't work. What you would need to do is have Courier deliver the messages in the queue to the new server. -- Bowie ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
