Retrieving emails from a dead server's hard drive

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 04:46:59PM -0500, Robert Brockway 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.

I tried copying a few of the files, to test, and as luck would have it,
they were spam that passed the first round of amavis/spamc, but were
caught by the second round of razor/bogofilter - so without looking
closely at the logs they didn't seem to be coming through.

Once I made a backup and copied everything it did, indeed work as you
all suggested.

I haven't looked for a while, but it looks like my first round of spam
filtration is blocking between 67%-90% of the emails inbound per day,
and my procmail-based secondary filter is blocking about 20% of the
remaining, per day.  Seems like a lot of spam, but it also isn't
bothering me at all.  I don't like to contemplate life without filters.
-- 

yours,

William

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