k...@cometawireless writes:
I've attempted to move mail from one hard disk to another. I had a mail server up and running for months but after trying to fix a problem I had with fetchmail it stopped working (in terms of sending and receiving mail). I figured since I wanted to move it to a larger hard drive anyway I'd just do a fresh install on a new hard drive and copy the mail across. I'm using the same hardware so I couldn't run both at once and rsync the mail across so I got a working install going and recreated the accounts I have on the the old hard drive than copied the mail over with the old hard drive sitting in a usb external hdd case. At first it looked like it worked as I could see all the mail I used to have in my in boxes in the in boxes of the new server but when I try to view subfolders I'm told I cannot view the subfolder as it either doesn't exist or it needs to be subscribed to. I copied everything across from the /var/vmail/ folders on my old hdd (including the "subscriptions" files) so everything should be there that was on the old hdd.I'm a novice so I'm not really sure what I'm doing. Was that the wrong method? Is there some other place I need to update the subscriptions so it finds these folders?
No, you should not have had to do anything. The only thing that you should do is copy everything in the maildir. However you can't just run a rather naive "cp -pr /var/vmail/mailbox/Maildir/* /var2/vmail/mailbox". Because folders are hidden subdirectories, a shell wildcard expansion of "*" will ignore them.
The best way to migrate maildirs is by using rsync with the -a option.
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