Author: Nico Erfurth Date: To: system CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] Migrating Mdaemon Mail Server user accounts to Linux Exim
Nico Erfurth wrote: > system@??? wrote:
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>> I am changing from Deerfeild Mdaemon Mail Server with windows NT to a
>> exim linux. How can I migrate the user accounts and files? I have about
>> 350 user accounts active.
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> How are the users stored?
> Most probably you need to dump a special part of the registry, and run
> it through a script, to convert it to the format you need.
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> I can't help you for the files (I think you mean spoolfiles/mailboxes),
> please check how they look now, maybe it's easy to convert them to
> something unix-ish.
I had a closer look, and it seems to be pretty easy.
Mdaemon is able to export the userdatabase to a CVS-File, so it's easy
to generate some useful files for exim from this.
The mails seem to be saved in a maildir-like format, so it's mostly
moving them over to the new location, and renaming them to something
real maildir-like, or using a converter to build a mboxfile from this.
