I'm switching from my reseller account to my own server in datacenter. In my old reseller-account all the emails are stored in e.g /home/info/ I have 'Thrash', 'sent' & 'draft' file and my inbox is in /var/spool/mail/, i got a 'info' file. With my CentOs setup, can i easily copy those files to let it work and where do i have to copy this ? Or do i have to do another procedure? tnx
It seems that your old server uses the mbox format to store emails and your new server uses maildir format. There is a tool available named mb2md that can convert mailbox files to maildir format: http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/ The maildirs on a ispconfig 3 server are in /var/vmail/domain.tld/user/Maildir/
Do i have to download the files first to my new server? because i don't have SSH access to my reseller account.
I'm following the mb2md, they say Run this as the user of the mailboxes, not as root. but i don't have users for eg. example.com, i only have root user to migrate my files. also when i do this [root@server Maildir]# ./mb2md.pl -s Drafts Fatal: Source is not an mbox file or a directory!
Solved Problem solved. What did i do? I have download all files of my current hosting (/home/[user]/) to /tmp/[user] of the new server and ran this: ./mb2md -s /tmp/[user]/ -R -d /var/vmail/[domain]/[user]/Maildir/ When i check my roundcube on my new server, all my mails are imported. 1 disadvantage: all my mails are marked unread Hopefully this will help anyone.
