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Old 07-24-2011, 04:00 AM Manually copying email files
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Hi guys,

i ran into a little problem while migrating from another server to my own one. I would like to copy all the emails from the old ./cur folder to the new ./cur folder.

First i checked whether the whole structure looked similar, which it does - both servers have a cur directory in each mail dir. They also have a tmp and a new directory. The emails do not entirely look the same, but there is a similarity.

So i tried to copy a single email to see if that works, but unfortunately it does not. Sure, i can copy the file, but it won't be recognized as an email in the inbox.

This is how the old ones look like:

1284310400.V904Ida07abM690105.localhost:2,S

And that is how the new ones look like:

1311418615.M826761P16793V0000000000000902I00000000 01DDA465.cranium.myhost.com,S=679:2,S

Can anybody help me out and tell me how to properly accomplish the task of migrating those emails? I know i could add both accounts to Thunderbird and just move the emails, but that takes way too long and is way too slow if i do it with all of my customer's mailboxes.

Thank You & Best regards,
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Old 07-24-2011, 09:43 AM Re: Manually copying email files
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Emails are given a GUID and timestamp as they arrive at the SMTP gateway, and the GUID is unique to the server that accepted the message so simply copying the files from 'A' to 'B' will fail,

Are both servers running WHM? If so use the "Copy Accounts" in the "fransfers" section.
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