[Eng_A_Fahmy]

hi all,
My mail server (sendmail) had encountered many errors, therefor I installed a new one (RedHat Linux 9) (sendmail-8.12) on another machine, now I need to restore users mail boxes from the old machine(RedHat 9) , I have already shared the /var/spool/mail on the old machine, and tried to access them from the new machine but they were locked and every file for every users has read and write premission for the oner only, even the premissions that given for the dir. /var/spool/mail in /etc/exports are read and write.

please tell me how can i unlock these files and get a premission to them and also tell me how can i restore these mail boxes.

thank you

[deuce868]

well I am a bit confused. It sounds like you set up a samba share for the mail files? Are you trying to map them from one machine to another, or flat move them?

If you are trying to move them I would just use scp to copy the files from the old sendmail server to the new one. Then as admin on the new server you can change any and all of the permissions of the mail files iwth chmod and chown.

To use scp you use a command like so:
scp -r (FROM) (TO)

so for instance to copy you files it looks like you might want:
scp -r admin@OLDMACHINEIP:/var/spool/mail/* /var/spool/mail/

This would be run on the new server ussing an ssh connection. this means you have to have ssh installed and running on the old server and the ssh client on the new one.

HTH