Moving the Mail Store

[buckster]

Hi,

I have a new G5 XServe running 10.3.4 server.

I want to mave the mailstore from the default location to another volume on the server before my clients start connecting.

I tried following directions on page 37 of Mail Service Administration documentation but no new mail store folders appear in the location I specify.

Form my searches it appears either the maunual is wrong or this functionality is broken.

Has anybody donw this successfully?

Can anyone advise how I can change the mail store location please?

Thanks,

buckster.

[bcirvin]

you might have to create the new mail store target directory first? i’m checking on this right now.

blake/

[bcirvin]

Ok, I’ve got this figured out with some help from a post on another mac support site.

First, stop the mail server (when you have no users logged in) – choose your mail store from the advanced menu in mail settings in server admin – i don’t trust the point-and-click interface, so type in the mail store box “/Volumes/<the name of your other physical hard drive>/<the name of the mail store you want to make>

You don’t have to pre-create the mail store folder, and you don’t have to put in the /Volumes section if it’s on the same drive – just specify the path to the folder you want whether or not you have another physical disk involved.

Then, drop into the terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and type the following command…

[yourhostname:~] sudo ditto -rsrc /var/spool/imap /Volumes/<the name of your other physical hard drive>/<the name of the other mail store(or the path)>

in other words, you are using the ditto command to copy all your imap spool data to another location, which you have specified via server admin

start the mail service – if, under the general settings you don’t see that smtp is enabled, go to the terminal and type “sudo postfix start”

cheers,
blake/

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