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Title: Migrating 1 User to new SME box
Post by: mizou on June 28, 2005, 06:46:59 AM

I have installed a new SME Server 6.0.1-01 box and migrating 1 website and 1 user across to the new box.

Regarding the webmail side, could I just create a new user on the new box and copy his
/home/e-smith/files/users/userxxx/Maildir
contents, onto the new box? or is there a better way of doing it?

Thanks

Mizou

Title: Migrating 1 User to new SME box
Post by: shanen on June 28, 2005, 11:59:52 PM

This is 1 way of doing it.

Grab the user panel contrib from dungogs website.
https://www.dungog.net/sme/files/userpanel/

Install on the old server then go to server manager then "User Panel Access"
Allow every user to access "userpanel-userbackup"

Go to http://yourserver/user-manager
Log in as the user you want to back up mail for.
Go to "data backup" and backup the users files to the desktop.

Install on the new server. Create the same user on the new server.
Repeat the process on the new server but "restore from desktop"

Title: Re: Migrating 1 User to new SME box
Post by: mrjhb3 on July 01, 2005, 03:18:32 AM

Quote from: "mizou"

I have installed a new SME Server 6.0.1-01 box and migrating 1 website and 1 user across to the new box.

Regarding the webmail side, could I just create a new user on the new box and copy his
/home/e-smith/files/users/userxxx/Maildir
contents, onto the new box? or is there a better way of doing it?

Thanks

Mizou

If you are just migrating one user, that is what I'd do to copy their whole home directory over.  Then goto the /home/e-smith/files/users and chown -R user.user user.  This will give the user full rights to the files in his directory.

JB