[vchkpw] move old mail to new dir layout
does anyone have or know of a way to cp -R user/Maildir/* to new/location/user/Maildir/ Is this possible without have to do it manually? We had a email system up forever using qmail+vpopmail etc. But the old system used vpasswd files and such. I made a new system using MySql and spamassassin ... But I had to add accounts before transferring it over. ALSO I couldn't just tar the domain's dir because people are always getting emails and tar would complain saying that a file was being writen to bleh bleh bleh. So i made a script and just added everyone into the new system from the vpasswd file. BUT the dirs of the users are not in the same location. SO is possible or does someone have a way to say read say the old vpasswd and then find that users dir on the new system and then copy that users old emails to the new dir layout? Yes I know there is a vconvert. That will not work because all the accounts are already added. I just need to move the users old mail from the old system to the new system but I just can't tar and untar because directories are not in the same places now... Hope that makes sense... Dev.
Re: [vchkpw] move old mail to new dir layout
I see what you're trying to do. I do 99% of the conversions/migrations between mail systems here at Inter7, so I know your problem. Try writing a script: * Get the next username * Look up old directory * Look up new directory * Copy files You can get their old directory from the old vpasswd files, and do a vuserinfo | grep home | awk to get their current directory. Hope that helps. dev wrote: does anyone have or know of a way to cp -R user/Maildir/* to new/location/user/Maildir/ Is this possible without have to do it manually? We had a email system up forever using qmail+vpopmail etc. But the old system used vpasswd files and such. I made a new system using MySql and spamassassin ... But I had to add accounts before transferring it over. ALSO I couldn't just tar the domain's dir because people are always getting emails and tar would complain saying that a file was being writen to bleh bleh bleh. So i made a script and just added everyone into the new system from the vpasswd file. BUT the dirs of the users are not in the same location. SO is possible or does someone have a way to say read say the old vpasswd and then find that users dir on the new system and then copy that users old emails to the new dir layout? Yes I know there is a vconvert. That will not work because all the accounts are already added. I just need to move the users old mail from the old system to the new system but I just can't tar and untar because directories are not in the same places now... Hope that makes sense... Dev. -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Matt Brookings - Chief Technical Officer Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. www.inter7.com - 847-492-0470 Prices at http://www.inter7.com/prices
Re: [vchkpw] move old mail to new dir layout
Ya. This shouldnt require a lot of tool creation on your part. vpopmail should have enough information and tools for this type of work, so you're lucky in that respect. Just think through it one step at a time, and you shouldnt have a problem getting it done :) Good luck! dev wrote: Yea it does... Hehe forgot about vuserinfo Over worked does this... Dev. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: dev [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 9:50 AM Subject: Re: [vchkpw] move old mail to new dir layout I see what you're trying to do. I do 99% of the conversions/migrations between mail systems here at Inter7, so I know your problem. Try writing a script: * Get the next username * Look up old directory * Look up new directory * Copy files You can get their old directory from the old vpasswd files, and do a vuserinfo | grep home | awk to get their current directory. Hope that helps. dev wrote: does anyone have or know of a way to cp -R user/Maildir/* to new/location/user/Maildir/ Is this possible without have to do it manually? We had a email system up forever using qmail+vpopmail etc. But the old system used vpasswd files and such. I made a new system using MySql and spamassassin ... But I had to add accounts before transferring it over. ALSO I couldn't just tar the domain's dir because people are always getting emails and tar would complain saying that a file was being writen to bleh bleh bleh. So i made a script and just added everyone into the new system from the vpasswd file. BUT the dirs of the users are not in the same location. SO is possible or does someone have a way to say read say the old vpasswd and then find that users dir on the new system and then copy that users old emails to the new dir layout? Yes I know there is a vconvert. That will not work because all the accounts are already added. I just need to move the users old mail from the old system to the new system but I just can't tar and untar because directories are not in the same places now... Hope that makes sense... Dev. -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Matt Brookings - Chief Technical Officer Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. www.inter7.com - 847-492-0470 Prices at http://www.inter7.com/prices -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Matt Brookings - Chief Technical Officer Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. www.inter7.com - 847-492-0470 Prices at http://www.inter7.com/prices
Re: [vchkpw] move old mail to new dir layout
Code here
snip
#!/usr/bin/perl
while() {
chomp;
@f = split /\:/;
open(VPOP, /home/vpopmail/bin/vuserinfo -d $f[0]\@bluetruck.net |) || die
cannot execute vuserinfo ($!)\n;
$werd = VPOP;
chop($werd);
if ((-d $f[5]) (-d $werd)) {
`cp -R $f[5]/Maildir/* $werd/Maildir`;
print $f[5] $werd\n;
}
else {
if (!-d $f[5]) { print dir does not exist in old email server
f[5]\n; }
if (!-d $werd) { print file does not exist in new email server
$werd\n; }
}
}
snip
First needed to sed old vpasswd file...
I tar'ed it up and put it here so I have to add correct path to the old
vpasswd...
sed -e s/\/home\//\/home\/oldemail\//g vpasswd vpasswd.new
mkdir /home/oldemail
on old email system..
tar -cf - /home/vpopmail/domains/muhdomain.com | ssh -l root
newmailserver.domain.com cat /home/oldemail/domain.tar
this will tar and transfer the old email to the new server
new server
cd /home/oldemail
tar -xvf domain.tar
which creates home/vpopmail/domains/muhdomain.com
now it looks like
/home/oldemail/home/vpopmail/domains/muhdomain.com
then I used the perl script above..
Thought I would send this to group just in case someone else needed to do
this
Dev.
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: [vchkpw] move old mail to new dir layout
Ya. This shouldnt require a lot of tool creation on your part.
vpopmail should have enough information and tools for this type
of work, so you're lucky in that respect.
Just think through it one step at a time, and you shouldnt have
a problem getting it done :)
Good luck!
dev wrote:
Yea it does...
Hehe forgot about vuserinfo
Over worked does this...
Dev.
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: dev [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: [vchkpw] move old mail to new dir layout
I see what you're trying to do. I do 99% of the
conversions/migrations
between mail systems here at Inter7, so I know your problem.
Try writing a script:
* Get the next username
* Look up old directory
* Look up new directory
* Copy files
You can get their old directory from the old vpasswd files, and do a
vuserinfo | grep home | awk to get their current directory.
Hope that helps.
dev wrote:
does anyone have or know of a way to cp -R user/Maildir/* to
new/location/user/Maildir/
Is this possible without have to do it manually?
We had a email system up forever using qmail+vpopmail etc. But the
old
system used vpasswd files and such.
I made a new system using MySql and spamassassin ...
But I had to add accounts before transferring it over. ALSO I
couldn't
just
tar the domain's dir because people are always getting emails and
tar
would
complain saying that a file was being writen to bleh bleh bleh.
So i made a script and just added everyone into the new system from
the
vpasswd file. BUT the dirs of the users are not in the same
location. SO
is
possible or does someone have a way to say read say the old vpasswd
and
then
find that users dir on the new system and then copy that users old
emails to
the new dir layout?
Yes I know there is a vconvert. That will not work because all the
accounts
are already added.
I just need to move the users old mail from the old system to the
new
system
but I just can't tar and untar because directories are not in the
same
places now...
Hope that makes sense...
Dev.
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Matt Brookings - Chief Technical Officer
Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc.
www.inter7.com - 847-492-0470
Prices at http://www.inter7.com/prices
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mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matt Brookings - Chief Technical Officer
Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc.
www.inter7.com - 847-492-0470
Prices at http://www.inter7.com/prices
