Re: [courier-users] Recovering Courier user email files

On 2007-04-03 20:44, Chris Lynch wrote:
>
>
> How can I migrate user mail from a courier server with one hostname, to a
> new server with a different hostname? I know I can't simply dump the files
> into the new mailbox, and expect it to read the file names properly.
>
> Is there a conversion tool, that will allow the email files from one courier
> mail server to work on another courier mail server, even temporarily?
>


There is absolutely no problem in just copying the files over to another
server. The hostname string and these fancy numbers are only there to
assure the uniqueness of filename. The important information (read,
trash status) is kept after the comma. Just look at the maildir man
page.



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Georg

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