[BlueOnyx:18477] Re: Moving users

[Colin Jack]

Hi Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-
> bounces at mail.blueonyx.it] On Behalf Of Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet
> Sent: 07 October 2015 17:15
> To: blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:18476] Re: Moving users
> 
> Hi Colin,
> 
> On 10/7/2015 10:59 AM, Colin Jack wrote:
> > Here is one I have not been asked before ... is it possible to move users
> between vsites?
> >
> > So if we have a vsite www.domain.com with user1 and user2, can I move say
> user2 to another site on the same server like www.anotherdomain.com?
> 
> No, this is not strictly possible.   You would need to do this manually,
> which is not a big deal, but can be tedious.   The steps would be
> something like this:

That is kind of what I thought but didn't want to follow the tedious route if there was an easier one.

> 1. Review account to be "moved", taking note of aliases, redirect /
> autoresponder options and AV-SPAM options (if applicable).   Note those
> settings to be copied / pasted into the new target account.
> 
> 2. Via shell, copy the mailstore (user's mbox & mail directory) to a safe location
> outside the users space.
> 
> 3. Using BlueOnyx, delete the user out of the outgoing vsite, then create the
> user in the new vsite.
> 
> 4. Copy across the alias/redirect/autoresponder and AV-SPAM settings from
> step 1.
> 
> 5. Copy in the mailstore from step 2.
> 
> Obviously, that's a pretty high-level overview.   But you should get the
> idea.

Many thanks

Colin