moving mailboxes to a new partition fails

[Miles]

I am in the process of moving all my data from the boot drive of my server and putting it on a separate volume. This should simplify my backups, plus make system upgrades easier. So far, I have moved my webserver documents, my MySQL data and all the individual user accounts. I just copied the files to the new volume, then crested a symlink from the original location.

My problem is with the mail stores. I tried the same method, copying /var/spool/imap to /Volumes/Datadisk/imap and creating a symlink from the original location. The server seems OK with this when it restarts, but when a mail user tries to log in, they get an IMAP error – with ‘SELECT MAILBOX’. I tired specifying the new location in server admin (no longer relying on the symlink), but still get the same error.

I switched it back and it seems OK again, but what do I need to do to make this work?

Thanks,

Miles

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