Mail Queue Migration Issues

[skwtayler]

Hi Guys,

I'm sitting with a weird issue. I've just switched on to a cloud-based platform. I had multiple issues with my previous dedicated machine which resulted in the Data Center not allowing emails through.

I've migrated all accounts but we have a strange situation where we have email sitting in the queue on the old server and we're not sure how to get this through to the new server...

Does anyone know how we can get this successfully across to the new platform without any email loss?

 

[NixTree]

rsync the contents of /var/spool/exim/ to the new server. it will work I believe!

 

[skwtayler]

I'm not 100% how to do this. Would you be able to explain a little more?
Is there any documentation I can check on this maybe?

 

[NixTree]

I'm not 100% how to do this. Would you be able to explain a little more?
Is there any documentation I can check on this maybe?

No documentation..exim stores the email in queue inside /var/spool/exim directory. you can rsync the contents of that diretcory to the newv server . It will be a worth to try it; it may work until there is some conflicts with the mail ID or something else. So, create the backup of that diretcory on new server before syncing it from old server to new.

 

[skwtayler]

Okay giving this a shot now. Hopefully this will work.

 

[skwtayler]

It worked great.
But now a we have the following stuck in Mailscanner:
Incoming Mail Queue (mail to be processed by MailScanner) 1480 messages
Outgoing Mail Queue (mail to be processed by Exim for delivery) 10 messages

If we disable Mailscanner they all disappear.

Do you have any ideas?