[BlueOnyx:00476] Re: Webmail to Squirrelmail?

[Jeff Mutschler | M Media]

Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet wrote:
> 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,
> 

Cake. Wasn't sure I could cat the old files to the new ones without 
messing up their mail, but AWESOME! Thanks guys!