stop mail server daemons (you DO have a backup MX I hope if you only have one mail server), rsync, (or if theres not much, sshfs and "cp -a") start mail server daemons.
if this is a different machine, with new IP, hope you changed your DNS to TTL 0 - and did it at least 24 hours ago so changes are picked up right away (dont forget to reset TTL to 1D again) On 7/4/14, Florent B <flor...@coppint.com> wrote: > On 07/04/2014 11:33 AM, Robert Schetterer wrote: >> Am 04.07.2014 10:52, schrieb Florent B: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I need to move e-mail files of my users from one file system to another. >>> >>> I use a MySQL backend on Dovecot 2.1. >>> >>> How can I do to disable temporary an account while moving files ? >>> >>> I have an "active" bit in my DB, but if I set it to 0, my MX servers are >>> bouncing mails. >>> >>> How can I do to disable temporary an account ? In fact, I need dovecot >>> not to do any change on files... >>> >>> I think I could change account password for a while, and reset it after >>> migration, but it will disturb connected users. >>> >>> Maybe I could chmod 0 files on my old file system during migration ? How >>> Dovecot will act ? >>> >>> Thank you :) >>> >>> Flo >>> >> read about this >> >> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Authentication/RestrictAccess >> >> and/or >> >> if your user has static ip use firwall to reject ( be aware of nat ) >> >> and/or >> >> change behave of sql active table with i.e postfix to tmp fail etc >> >> i.e ( dont copy paste ,must fit to your postfix(sql)config !!! ) >> >> smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_unknown_recipient_domain, >> reject_non_fqdn_recipient, >> permit_mynetworks, >> check_recipient_access >> mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql_virtual_inactive_mailaddress.cf, >> >> mysql_virtual_inactive_mailaddress.cf >> >> ... >> query = SELECT CONCAT('421 mailaddress %s is set in inactive mode') >> address FROM mailbox WHERE username='%s' AND active = '0' >> >> be aware of all other involved postfix/sql tables where active = 0 is >> honored too, do hard testing before use in production >> >> after all change password might be the most easy way for only seconds >> >> Best Regards >> MfG Robert Schetterer >> > > Thank you very much Robert. > > I also had a look at "dsync" tool. But I think it handles only mails > directory, and not all user's home (my users's home contains indexes, > Maildir and sieve directories). >