Transferring Address Books to new cPanel

[nyfael]

Hi --

I was transferring cPanels from an old server to a new one. We didn't need everything and I didn't know about the copy server option at the time. Through out dedicated servers IT department, I was told to create all the email addresses on the new one, then copy the "mail" folder over.

I did this, and that was fine. The problem is the address books didn't transfer.

Is this somewhere in the etc folder? How would I transfer just the address books?

Thanks,
Kerry

[cPanelDavidG]

Originally Posted by nyfael

Hi --

I was transferring cPanels from an old server to a new one. We didn't need everything and I didn't know about the copy server option at the time. Through out dedicated servers IT department, I was told to create all the email addresses on the new one, then copy the "mail" folder over.

I did this, and that was fine. The problem is the address books didn't transfer.

Is this somewhere in the etc folder? How would I transfer just the address books?

Thanks,
Kerry

You would need to transfer the files and/or databases this data is stored in. Horde and Roundcube store their address books in databases. Squirrelmail stores its address book in your home directory in the user's .sqmaildata directory.

[nyfael]

Do you know where those databases are? Normal MySQL Databases, is it in "information_schema", which part should I copy?

Thanks!

-Kerry

[cPanelDavidG]

Originally Posted by nyfael

Do you know where those databases are? Normal MySQL Databases, is it in "information_schema", which part should I copy?

Thanks!

-Kerry

The roundcube database is stored with the database name: roundcube

You will find a contacts table in the roundcube database.

The horde database is stored with the database name: horde

In my very brief testing, I found my address book entry to be stored in a table called turba_objects