sendmail mailbox migration

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Irenicus

Hi guys,

I'm trying to migrate the sendmail mailbox from one old server to another
newly setup server, is there any tools out there to achieve this?
Or do I have to do it manually by setting up, the
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/var/spool/mail

TIA.
 
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
/var/spool/mail
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If you are using mbox format, just copy the files in /var/spool/mail
over to the new server. Of course, the ownership and permission of
those spool files must remain the same.

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Man-wai Chang said:
If you are using mbox format, just copy the files in /var/spool/mail
over to the new server. Of course, the ownership and permission of
those spool files must remain the same.
Click to expand...

You don't need to port the passwd and shadow, unless you need to use the
same UID for some reasons... Just re-create them otherwise.

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.~. Might, Courage, Vision. SINCERITY. http://www.linux-sxs.org
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/( _ )\ (Ubuntu 5.10) Linux 2.6.16.14
^ ^ 20:10:01 up 4:34 0 users 1.08 1.05
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