dovecot - Apr 2016 - Moving to as new server

I will shortly have to replace the OS on my machine. For various
reasons, I will not be able to use a program like ?imapsync? to
transfer my documents to a new server. All of the mail folders on my
present PC are stored under ?/var/mail/vmail?. If I copied all of the
folders under ?vmail? and moved them to the new PC, would Dovecot be
able to access them normally? Dovecot would not be running while I
moved the files.

Thanks

I use 'rsync' as a failover tool, never a problem.


On 4/24/2016 5:42 AM, Jerry wrote:
> I will shortly have to replace the OS on my machine. For various
> reasons, I will not be able to use a program like ?imapsync? to
> transfer my documents to a new server. All of the mail folders on my
> present PC are stored under ?/var/mail/vmail?. If I copied all of the
> folders under ?vmail? and moved them to the new PC, would Dovecot be
> able to access them normally? Dovecot would not be running while I
> moved the files.
>
> Thanks

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On Sun, 24 Apr 2016, Jerry wrote:
> I will shortly have to replace the OS on my machine. For various
> reasons, I will not be able to use a program like ?imapsync? to
> transfer my documents to a new server. All of the mail folders on my
> present PC are stored under ?/var/mail/vmail?. If I copied all of the
> folders under ?vmail? and moved them to the new PC, would Dovecot be
> able to access them normally? Dovecot would not be running while I
> moved the files.
if the access permissions and Dovecot config keeps the same, there should 
be no problem.

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Steffen Kaiser
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