[Techtalk] Migrating mail servers

[Michelle Murrain]

On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 12:34, James wrote:
> We're installing a new mail server soon and I was wondering what
> procedure I should follow to move users and their mail from the old
> server to the new server.  The old server is Debian and the new one will
> be Gentoo, both running uw-imap.
> 
> Is it a matter of copying:
> /etc/groups
> /etc/passwd
> /etc/shadow
> /home/*
> /var/mail/
> 
> Is there anything else to it?  Any caveats?

(This sounds obvious, but I learned it the hard way...) Just make sure
you shutdown mail on the old server first.

Otherwise, sounds like the plan to me.
-- 
.Michelle
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