transfer mailboxes

[Paul Blondé]

>From what to what?

Odds are you are using sendmail on a UNIX box, but what are you moving to?
BSD? Linux? MacOS 10? Are you going to use sendmail? Postfix? Qmail? Scalix?
Zimbra? Are you going to run it as an IMAP server or a pop3/smtp?

You are probably better off just mailing your passwd file (you are using
shadow passwords not plaintext right?), or dumping a user list to a file and
mailing it to the new machine (unless you are using virtual email accounts,
then it gets a bit uglier), then writing a quick script to grep the user
names to an account creation command.

Note: This will make the new accounts, but not transfer existing mail! To
transfer existing mail, you are going to have to need to know the
aforementioned details.



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Paul



-----Original Message-----
From: cyrus-sasl-bounces at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
[mailto:cyrus-sasl-bounces at lists.andrew.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Jean Frontin
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 12:30 AM
To: cyrus
Subject: transfer mailboxes


Hello,

We want to transfer mailboxes from a unix server where every user has a 
/var/mail/user_mailbox. May you tell me a procedure to make that or are 
there scripts to do this ?

Regards
--
Jean Frontin
System team
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