Migrate Mail Data

Hi,

I am planning to re-setup my server and the only data I am not 100% on my process of migrating correctly is Mail. Can someone confirm is my process will work or needs tweaking?

Export Users from the Open Directory Server

1. Open Server.app and select Users
2. Click on the cog at the bottom of the window and select “Export Users…”
3. Select Export: Local Network Users
4. Select the name and location to store the export file

Copy Mail Data

1. Mail Data is store in /Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail
2. Copy data to external location

On New Server Setup

Import Users from Users Export File

1. Open Server.app and select Users
2. Click on the cog at the bottom of the window and select “Import Users…”
3. Change Directory to Local Network Directory and choose the export file and click Import

Copy Mail Data

1. Copy mail data to /Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail
2. Open terminal and run sudo chown -R _dovecot /Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/