Retrieving emails from a dead server's hard drive

[Robert Brockway]

On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 04:30:15PM -0500, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
>> One thing that worries me is that the hostnames of the old server and my
>> desktop differ, so the filenames in the maildirs, which include the
>> hostname, will not be uniform.  I will test, and report back.
>
> Doesn't matter.  They are just unique names.  They can be anything.

Exactly.  Infact it is good that the old hostname is in the filename as is 
guarantees uniqueness on the new server.

In my tests the hostnames (and usernames) were different and it all 'just 
worked' with Dovecot.

Cheers,

Rob

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