On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 07:33:56AM -0700, @lbutlr wrote: > I???m going to setup a new machine and move all the mail onto it. I???ll go > with the latest FreeBSD (11.0-RELEASE currently). I am currently running > postfix-current-3.2.20161204. > > My plan is: > > 1) Setup FreeBSD on new hardware > 2) install all mail related ports (dovecot, openssl, etc) > 3) install postfix from source > 4) copy my postfix configuration & mysql databases > 5) copy other config files for dovecot/etc > 6) copy all user mail folders to new machine > 7) stop mail on the old machine when mail is empty > 8) rsync all user mail folders to new hardware to catch any last mails > 9) bring up mail on new machine > 10) fix whatever is not working > 11) Do 9 & 10 until all seems good > > Does this seem reasonable? > > Since I am taking the server offline, I think I do not need to deal with the > spool files? >
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