migrating users from one xmail installation to another

I have a rather ageing system that is running xmail1.23 running Fedora Core 6 and I was intending to move the mailserver to a newer more supportable system running xmail 1.26.

What is the easiest way to migrate the mail users and mail from one server to another.  I’ve previously tried copying the tab files and the domains folder into a new installation and not been successful.  I can’t believe I am the only one to want to do this.

Stuart Smith

Here is what I have done in the past.

1.       Copy the whole MailRoot folder to your new server

2.       Extract everything to a new directory on your new server

3.       Remove the content the following directories

a.       MailRoot/dnscache/mx

b.      MailRoot/dnscache/ns

c.       MailRoot/tabindex

d.      MailRoot/spool

e.      Manually create MailRoot/spool/temp

f.        Manually create MailRoot/spool/local

4.       Download XMail-1.26

5.       Extract the 1.26 tarball into a temporary directory

6.       Compile XMail-1.26 (see readme)

7.       Copy the new 1.26 binaries into MailRoot/bin/ of your old installation

8.       Go to the website and read the changelog since 1.23 for adding the new variables inside server.tab

There might be other minor things to adjust but that covers the major steps.

-fred

I have a rather ageing system that is running xmail1.23 running Fedora Core 6 and I was intending to move the mailserver to a newer more supportable system running xmail 1.26.

What is the easiest way to migrate the mail users and mail from one server to another.  I’ve previously tried copying the tab files and the domains folder into a new installation and not been successful.  I can’t believe I am the only one to want to do this.

Stuart Smith