I recently moved my mailserver from one box to another.

OLD box:

RH 9 / plesk 7 / horde

NEW box:

Fedora Core 1 / cpanel / horde / squirrelmail

I have copied all the emails over via ssh from a /var/qmail folder where the e-mails are stored.

I cannot, however, find a similar storage area in my new servers configuration. Being that I've activated horde on this server as well I had hoped it would be fairly simple to 'paste' the old messages in.


anyone know how I may do this?

Thanks!

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Cheers,
Tink

The email messages should have been delivered to the Mailbox/Maildir of the recipient, unless you used the standard mbox, inwhich case new mail will reside in /var/spool/mail/<username> (or a symlink in some setups)

You IMAP server choice could also be taken into consideration.

I know the new server is not using qmail as I had to create that directory - how would I go about figuring out where this server is configured to store messages?

/var/spool/mail/username exists, but I do not see anything other than usernames there (no files).

sorry if this is noobish, that's why I posted in the 'linux noob' section ... thanks for any/all help.

Uhhh... where the messages go depends a lot on what mail server you're using and how messages are stored.

Typically new messages will live in /var/spool/mail/<username> and then could be moved via the client to a local userspace store.

If you're setiing up for just a smple POP3 server, users will download their mail to a local machine with an email client (Mozilla Mail, MSLookOut, etc.), and optionally delete it from the server.

If you're gearing up for a webmail install, then the IMAP client will grab the new mail from /var/spool/mail/<username> and then file it in the user's home directory on the server.

Your second reply seems to be correct (webmail) ... if I go to /home/username/mail/user and 'vi inbox' it seems to be some sort of flat file with all messages contained. How then would I go about adding our old messages aside from opening each individual message from the old server and pasting into this flat file on the new?

I know I must be making this way more difficult than it should be

So... on the old server your messages are setup as individual files?

yes, for example they appear in :

/var/qmail/mailnames/mydomain.com/username/Maildir/cur

I find a line for each message similar to this (each of these contains one e-mail):

1087930383.4382.my.server.name:2,S
1088060058.4215.my.server.name:2,S
1089331532.5412.my.server.name:2,S
1089404908.27509.my.server.name:2,RS

and so on for each message in /cur


When I open the /inbox file on the new server, it seems to contain all these messages in a flat file, leaving me stumped as to how I may add them. I may just see if I can grab these files to my local machine, combine into a text doc and send to myself.

-eddie

Ahhh. OK - Maildir2mbox is what you should be using

http://www.qmail.org/qmail-manual-ht...ldir2mbox.html

Is this something I must install qmail to use? I cannot seem to locate a download for this script, only man pages and how-tos. I assume by my readings this script will take those files from my old server and create a 'flat' file for my new server ...

anyway, thanks for your help so far ... anything else you may have is appreciated.

You would need to do this on the original mail server, or setup a new qmail with the same users as the original.