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- MAILMOVE
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- Combining users from two 3+Mail servers into one 3+Mail server.
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- 1. Notify all users on the source server (the server where the users are
- moving from) to retrieve their mail. The Mailmove program can't move
- users with mail in their mail server. Hopefully 90% or more will do
- this for you. For the people who don't do this, you as an admin user
- will have to login as each user and retrieve their mail for them.
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- 2. To create a list for the users on the mail server we'll do a "3m
- dirm" and redirect it to a file. Logged-in as an admin run:
- >> 3m server= source server; dirm > maildir
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- If the server domain and/or org. is different than yours use the full
- 3part name. (The space after the equal sign is necessary).
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- 3. Check the "current number of mailboxes" on both the source and the
- destination server.
- >> 3m server= source server; status
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- If the total users for the two servers is greater than the "maximum
- number of mailboxes" on the destination server it will have to be
- increased using 3INS or 3INSTALL. The server will have to be re-booted
- for the new parameters to take effect.
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- 4. To execute the mailmove program put the source server then the
- destination server and redirect the maildir file for input on the
- command line.
- >> mailmove "source server" "destination server" < maildir
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- (The double quotes are needed for servers with more than one word
- server names). Mailmove will echo the from and to server names. If any
- users have mail it will echo their name and continue moving the others.
- It the destination server doesn't have enough mail boxes it will echo an
- error message and abort. If mailmove encounters other problems it
- echoes an appropriate error message and continues. Note problems.
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- 5. Clean-up: do a 3m dirm of the source server to check if all users got
- moved. They could have received mail while you were running the
- program. If so start with step number one and redo the procedure.
- Other error messages will usually indicate a name service problem for
- that individual. Do a 3n dir and see if you can figure out the
- problem.
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