On 04/28/2014 09:29 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: > On 04/28/2014 03:56 AM, Wicus Roets wrote: >> Hi, >> >> There are quite a few references on the net on migrating from sendmail >> to qmail. However, we’ve now had a query to migrate one vpopmail domain >> to a hostmonster shared solution. (which is running sendmail) >> >> Of course the client is using IMAP and does not want to lose any mail >> during the migration. >> >> Having had minimal to no exposure on sendmail (as we started with qmail >> back in the day), how painful would such a migration be ? >> >> Currently I’m assuming I’d only need to create the users on the >> hostmonster platform and then move/copy the individual maildir folder’s >> /cur contents to sendmail’s . However, early reading states that >> sendmail uses a single file for all mail whereas qmail uses individual >> files. >> >> Anyone been through this exercise before to possibly advise on some >> pointers ? >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > I certainly haven't. (FWIW, sendmail reminds me of assembler macros!). > > There appears to be several imap migration utilities according to > google. One was mentioned here not too long ago, but I don't recall > which it was. Any of these should work regardless of the storage > format, as they work using the imap protocol on both ends of the > migration. > > While it's not as efficient as moving copying one directory to another server. If both servers are running you can open your client with both accounts and simply copy the mail from one to the other. I've done this before and it works fine. -- CJ
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