Gokul chandrasekharan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the response. Accounts are hosted in a shared Linux server having
> cpanel and Exim MTA. I want to transfer the mail alone for few user accounts
> to a new linux server which has exim installed. However it does not have
> cpanel or any control panel. Please advice in that case. I hope the
> requirement is clear now.
>
> Regards,
> Gokul
Note: You only need Cpanel if you have neither access to, nor experience
with using, a command-line interface and text editor.
You should probably begin by gathering as much information on the
settings - both 'systemwide', 'per-domain' and 'per user', of the
present host as the tools you have access to will allow.
You will then need to replicate (or adapt) those settings as well as set
up the list of authorized users on the new server. No need just yet to
move the existing messages.
*Test that* before you even begin to migrate mail.
Once you are comfortable that the new server is doing things the way you
want, you will then need to determine if you have access to tools to
copy the mail folders from present server to new.
I'm in the midst of doing just that, and using 'cpdup' over a GigE
inside LAN link. As we have always bought larger HDD instead of impsong
quotas, one of the 'folders' to be moved is over 80GB in size...
...but the boxes are two feet apart and I have root on both,
If they are two continents - or even just two contractor-identities
apart, life will be more challenging....
YMMV
Bill
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:31 PM, W B Hacker <wbh@???> wrote:
>
>> Gokul chandrasekharan wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have a shared linux server with exim and cpanel, where my accounts are
>>> hosted. I need to transfer mail alone for few accounts to an alternate
>>> server where exim is installed. However it does not have cpanel. So i
>>> require to do everything manual. Please advice. Thank you.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Goks
>> By '...transfer mail alone' do you mean:
>>
>> - migrate only the existing messages (and folders, etc) to an existing
>> mail system on another server..
>>
>> Or ..
>>
>> - set up, for 'a few accounts' a new mail system (MTA, POP/IMAP, etc)
>> where there is none installed at present.
>>
>>
>> And . if both systems already exist, do they use hte same MTA, POP/IMAP,
>> and back-end mailstore (mbox, maildir, 'other'...)
>>
>> The first is easy, and needs no CPANEL.
>>
>> The second takes longer, ('coz it also includes the first). needs no
>> CPANEL, but will need root access or the assistance of whomever has it.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>>
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