Migrating Email Accounts from CPanel (Exim) to Plesk (QMail) - page 4

Submitted by muneer on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 19:02
 
 
 
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Restoring the emails from old server

Think before do it!!

If the users are using mail client to access emails, rather than webmail, this would be a big over head for them. If we copy all mails from old server to new server, email clients will start to download all messages as it was configured newly. Think of email account those having 1 GB of email.

Any way, if we wish to put them on the new server, the solution is simple. Just copy the email folders from old server to new server.

My Maildir structure on old server was similar to below.

Maildir in my new server is similar to below format

Only what we have to do is, examine target directory structure and change the source to match it. Then replace the directories of each user in the target server. That’s all.

 

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Zak Wolfinger

Wed, 11/16/2011 - 18:19

This post was a huge help to me in performing the same migration. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.


muneer

Thu, 11/17/2011 - 08:35

you most welcome.

It is better to share the knowledge as no one of us is full of it.


Gregor

Sun, 12/11/2011 - 02:57

Your post saved me.
BTW in plesk 10.3 ... the script mail.sh becomes just 'mail' and must be invoked with full path name. The params however remain the same. Invoke it with --help to see full list of options.


Tati

Mon, 02/27/2012 - 20:32

I just moved my poievrusly self-hosted servers to a media temple solution and this saved me a bit of time figuring out the sql dump and import commands so I just wanted to say thanks!

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