Postfix exporting

[skywalker]

Hi!,

I have an old mail server installed FreeBSD + Postfix. The system works good.

I have prepared a new freebsd and postfix. I want to export all postfix data from old server to the new server.

How i can do it? Is there real ways to establish this?

Thank you
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[corey_james]

what do you mean by 'postfix data' - you talking about users mail boxes?
they'll move over quite fine - they are in a standardised format

[skywalker]

what do you mean by 'postfix data' - you talking about users mail boxes?
they'll move over quite fine - they are in a standardised format

Yes about milboxes. And also about configuration.

Is there any docnument or how-to-s to do this?

thanks

[gkontos]

Yes about milboxes. And also about configuration.

Is there any docnument or how-to-s to do this?

thanks
I had a similar project last year but with a mailserver for 300 domains.
1) How do you have your mailboxes ? (local accounts, etc)
2) Besides postfix, are you using any other application that interacts with it?
3) How do users get their email, pop3, imap ?

George

[deemon]

Just tar them on old server and copy it over to the new server and extract.
Same method goes for both mailboxes and postfix configuration.
Something like this:
tar -cf - -C /path/to/user/mailboxes | ssh anotherhost tar -xpf - -C /path/to/user/mailboxes

However, like previous poster pointed out, re-creating users on another system is a bit different matter.
How to do that depends what kind of users do you have? System users or virtual (stored in somekind of database, e.g. mysql)?