[BlueOnyx:00475] Re: Webmail to Squirrelmail?

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc. wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jeff Mutschler | M Media" <Jeff_Mutschler at mmediausa.com>
> To: "BlueOnyx General Mailing List" <blueonyx at blueonyx.it>
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 2:27 PM
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:00473] Webmail to Squirrelmail?
> 
> 
>> It doesn't appear client email is making it from importing users from BQ
>> to BX (webmail to squirrelmail)... Any way to import mail? Thoughts?
> 
> 
> Jeff
> 
> If the accounts are being created, but the mail files themselves are not 
> coming over, I have seen that also on BQ to BQ transfers. Possibly the same 
> problem continues in BQ to BlOnyx
> 
> I don't have a solution.

Yes, we've seen this on 550-BQ, BQ->BQ, and now BQ->BX transfers.   For 
whatever reason the mbox or mail/saved-messages files don't make it intact.

What we do when we see that happen is to manually copy the mbox or 
mail/saved-messages (depending on if they've been POP'ing or IMAP) over 
from the old server to the new one, then combining the files.

Quick & dirty procedure:
1) Copy old file to new server, rename old file (ie: mbox-xfer)
2) Move the old file to the users directory
(ie: mv mbox-xfer /home/sites/www.domain.tld/users/jpublic )
3) cd into the user directory
4) Append the old file to the new one
(ie: cat mbox-xfer >> mbox )
Make sure you use the 2 > in there or else you'll overwrite the new one 
and wipe out whatever new mail has been stored.

HTH,

-- 
Chris Gebhardt
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