On 5/25/07, Bo Lynch <blynch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am running version 1.4.6 on a Fedora Core 2 installation. Over the > summer I will be upgrading to either centos 4.4 or centos 5. I would like > to be able to keep all user data. If I copied the user ID's out of > /etc/passwd and /etc/group, the entire /home, /var/spool/mail, /var/mail, > and the /usr/share/squirrelmail would this work. Assuming that I match > user and group ID's upon copying them over. Or is there a better appraoch > at accomplishing this? Technically, this is NOT a SquirrelMail question. It depends on your MTA and IMAP implementation. The question that would be SM-specific in this situation is how to preserve SM user data, which is to back up your data directory or the database where your user prefs are stored (in which case, you STILL may have some data in the data directory that you should migrate). - Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
