On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Derrick MacPherson wrote:
> Any suggestions as to how to moving my current mailboxes (/var/mail) to
> /var/mail/domain
(1) Change your configuration so that if /var/mail/$local_part exists, it
uses that; otherwise it uses /var/mail/$domain/$local_part. (This can be
done with ${if exists ....} in the file name.)
(2) Use exim_lock to move individual mailboxes by a command such as
exim_lock mv /var/mail/xxx /var/mail/domain/xxx
assuming that will do a rename. If the mailboxes are on different
partitions, you will have to copy and then delete the old one, all under
exim_lock.
I think it should be safe to do that while the system is running
normally, but if you are paranoid, you can stop all Exim deliveries by
inserting
queue_only
in the configuration while you are moving things.
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