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MAILMOVE
Combining users from two 3+Mail servers into one 3+Mail server.
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.
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
If the server domain and/or org. is different than yours use the full
3part name. (The space after the equal sign is necessary).
3. Check the "current number of mailboxes" on both the source and the
destination server.
>> 3m server= source server; status
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.
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
(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.
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.