Re: [exim] Moving mail providers

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Author: Vincent Danen
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To: Dave Lugo
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Moving mail providers
* Dave Lugo <dlugo@???> [2007-05-10 17:59:17 -0400]:

>> I have a quick question; I have no idea how easy or hard this might be
>> but I haven't found anything via google.
>>
>> For the last few years I've been running my own exim server but now I'm
>> moving a bunch of domains to one of those domain hosting outfits (they
>> use exim too, which is nice).
>>
>> The problem is I have some users who use imap, so I have mail of theirs
>> sitting here in maildirs. How can I "reinject" those mails to the local
>> exim and have it deliver to the new server? I know I need to remove
>> them from the list of domains to deliver for locally, so if I can
>> reinject them, they'll get delivered to the remote site. Is there a way
>> I can just toss those messages to exim? I tried using "cat [file] |
>> mail user@???" and it sends the file, but the entire file is the
>> message contents, not the actual message itself.
>>
>> It's ok if the message shows up as new again on the new host, but other
>> than that it needs to remain largely intact.
>>
>> Thanks for any pointers. Sorry if this is a pretty dumb question.
>>
>
>Can't you just use any of the imap copy/move utilities that are on
>the net?


Hmmm... I suppose I could. I'll have to look into that. I wasn't aware
there were tools like that. =)

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