Re: [exim] Moving a queue to another server

2018-07-14 Thread Christian K via Exim-users
Thanks for the feedback. Rsyncing the spool sound like the most practical solution if it can be done that easily. Both servers are pretty much identical in configuration so there should be no version differences of any kind (neither exim nor any libraries). I guess if this needed to be done more

Re: [exim] Moving a queue to another server

2018-07-12 Thread Chris Siebenmann via Exim-users
> I am wondering if there is a good way to move all pending mails from > one exim server to another. > It is probably not the best idea to move the files from one spool > directory to another (idea 1). For what it's worth, we've historically done exactly this for mail server migrations (eg to a h

Re: [exim] Moving a queue to another server

2018-07-12 Thread Jeremy Harris via Exim-users
On 12 July 2018 12:03:03 CEST, Heiko Schlittermann via Exim-users wrote: >Christian K via Exim-users (Do 12 Jul 2018 >11:26:27 CEST): >> I am wondering if there is a good way to move all pending mails from >> one exim server to another. >> It is probably not the best idea to move the files fr

Re: [exim] Moving a queue to another server

2018-07-12 Thread Heiko Schlittermann via Exim-users
Christian K via Exim-users (Do 12 Jul 2018 11:26:27 CEST): > I am wondering if there is a good way to move all pending mails from > one exim server to another. > It is probably not the best idea to move the files from one spool > directory to another (idea 1). Why not? If you stop the Exim insta

[exim] Moving a queue to another server

2018-07-12 Thread Christian K via Exim-users
Hi, I am wondering if there is a good way to move all pending mails from one exim server to another. It is probably not the best idea to move the files from one spool directory to another (idea 1). I found this exim option in the man page and I guess it would be possible to build a separate transp