David,
As long as you duplicate the user's ownership and
permissions, you should be okay just to copy the
directories.
If there aren't a whole bunch of users, you first
archive the email directories:
tar -cvzf (create, verbose, gzip, filename)
email.backup.tar.gz /path/to/email/dirs
then copy/ftp/move the resulting email.backup.tar.gz
to your new email server and unarchive the tarball:
tar -xvzf email.backup.tar.gz
Then, assuming you have already recreated the same
user accounts, you would change the ownership of each
email directory:
chown -R john.users /path/to/email/dirs/john
and possibly you might need to change the permissions:
chmod 600 (rw only by owner) /path/to/email/dirs/john
Hope this helps!
John Hebert
visiting from BRLUG, looking for other OpenBSD users
--- David J <davisparbuckle@cox.net> wrote:
> Hello all,
> Does anyone know if there is an easy way
> to backup "email
> accounts" on a qmail server? Would it work if I just
> copied the
> appropriate folders to the new server? I have
> searched the qmail
> archives and even done a google search with no
> success. Basically what
> I am trying to do is migrate an existing qmail setup
> onto a new server.
> Instead of doing everything by hand I figured I
> would check here first.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> David John
>
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