Torsten wrote:
Hi David,
thanks for your suggestions.
You`re right, if I use rsync the smtp service on the old maschine could be
active when copying the mboxes.
Without rsync a loss of emails is possible.
I think you mean 'POP' or 'IMAP' rather than 'SMTP', but yes.
Hmm let`s see, maybe I
we did nearly the same procedure the last time we switched from an old
Qpopper maschine to a new Qpopper maschine.
The last time we had not so much users (maybe 16000), not so much data
(round about 20Gigs) and there was no need of conversion.
This time we have new DNS-Names, new environment
Torsten wrote:
- stop services (smtp and pop3) on the old maschine
- copy the mboxes to the new maschine
- run a conversion script (for excample: Perfect_maildir
http://perfectmaildir.home-dn.net/)
- start the services on the new maschine (smtp and Dovecot)
Hi,
So, parts of these processes
Hi Torsten,
You can try installing an IMAP daemon on the old box and use a tool like
imapsync to copy existing e-mails to the new box. This will allow you to
reduce downtime to the user whose mailbox is being copied at that point
in time.
While this goes on, you may need a POP3/IMAP proxy
