Move "/var/vmail" to "/home/vmail"

[Trovan]

Hello,

I need to move the folder where the emails are storaged.

What is the best solution for that?

[Jae]

may be not best solution

- in old server, from /var,  targz "vmail"  folder 
- move targz file into folder where we can wget it, exp "/home/user/public_html/

- in new server, from /var folder, wget archive.tar.gz from old server
- un targz it

[diegos]

Hello,

I need to move the folder where the emails are storaged.

What is the best solution for that?

I don't test it, but:

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/etc/init.d/postfix stop && mv /var/vmail/ /home/vmail && ln /home/vmail /var/vmail && /etc/init.d/postfix start


[tyrnight]

Use this, as Ive tested this with Centos7

service postfix stop && mv /var/vmail/ /home/vmail && mv /var/vmail /var/vmailold && ln -s /home/vmail /var/vmail && service postfix start


you can remove the /var/vmailold at your leisure when you know all is working..

[andipreza]

Hello,

I need your help, because all emails are locate to /var/vmail/
and / is only 50 giga. I dont have more free space here,
How to change the directory of emails to correspondent folder for each user /home/%user...

Thank you so much.

[CoriaWeb Hosting]

Hello,

I need your help, because all emails are locate to /var/vmail/
and / is only 50 giga. I dont have more free space here,
How to change the directory of emails to correspondent folder for each user /home/%user...

Thank you so much.

https://wiki.centos-webpanel.com/move-varvmail-to-another-partition

[ejsolutions]

The ideal location would/should be /home/%user%/mail
Will also easily allow email to be included in a user's quota.
(As said a few times in the past.)

[andipreza]

The ideal location would/should be /home/%user%/mail
Will also easily allow email to be included in a user's quota.
(As said a few times in the past.)

YEs this is ideally, but how I can do it? any idea please!

[andipreza]

Hello,

I need your help, because all emails are locate to /var/vmail/
and / is only 50 giga. I dont have more free space here,
How to change the directory of emails to correspondent folder for each user /home/%user...

Thank you so much.

https://wiki.centos-webpanel.com/move-varvmail-to-another-partition

Hello, thank you for your help, i am trying to test these comands in my ServerLab  by sending emails with big attach, but I dont know why the size of home and the size of /root  are increase bothly ?!

before
[root@cwp var]# df -h
Filesystem               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs                 5.8G     0  5.8G   0% /dev
tmpfs                    5.8G     0  5.8G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                    5.8G   60M  5.8G   2% /run
tmpfs                    5.8G     0  5.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/centos-root  193G  7.1G  176G   4% /
/dev/sda1                976M  141M  769M  16% /boot
/dev/mapper/centos-home  583G 245M  553G   1% /home
tmpfs                    1.2G     0  1.2G   0% /run/user/0

after
[root@cwp var]# df -h
Filesystem               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs                 5.8G     0  5.8G   0% /dev
tmpfs                    5.8G     0  5.8G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                    5.8G   60M  5.8G   2% /run
tmpfs                    5.8G     0  5.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/centos-root  193G  7.3G  176G   4% /
/dev/sda1                976M  141M  769M  16% /boot
/dev/mapper/centos-home  583G 338M  553G   1% /home
tmpfs                    1.2G     0  1.2G   0% /run/user/0

[anandmys]

The ideal location would/should be /home/%user%/mail
Will also easily allow email to be included in a user's quota.
(As said a few times in the past.)

Hope we will get a solution for this.

[andipreza]

Hello,

I need your help, because all emails are locate to /var/vmail/
and / is only 50 giga. I dont have more free space here,
How to change the directory of emails to correspondent folder for each user /home/%user...

Thank you so much.

https://wiki.centos-webpanel.com/move-varvmail-to-another-partition

Hello, thank you for your help, i am trying to test these comands in my ServerLab  by sending emails with big attach, but I dont know why the size of home and the size of /root  are increase bothly ?!

before
[root@cwp var]# df -h
Filesystem               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs                 5.8G     0  5.8G   0% /dev
tmpfs                    5.8G     0  5.8G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                    5.8G   60M  5.8G   2% /run
tmpfs                    5.8G     0  5.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/centos-root  193G  7.1G  176G   4% /
/dev/sda1                976M  141M  769M  16% /boot
/dev/mapper/centos-home  583G 245M  553G   1% /home
tmpfs                    1.2G     0  1.2G   0% /run/user/0

after
[root@cwp var]# df -h
Filesystem               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs                 5.8G     0  5.8G   0% /dev
tmpfs                    5.8G     0  5.8G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                    5.8G   60M  5.8G   2% /run
tmpfs                    5.8G     0  5.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/centos-root  193G  7.3G  176G   4% /
/dev/sda1                976M  141M  769M  16% /boot
/dev/mapper/centos-home  583G 338M  553G   1% /home
tmpfs                    1.2G     0  1.2G   0% /run/user/0

I see that for every email something is save here: /usr/local/cwpsrv/var/services/roundcube/temp
so i thing that is not a solution to move only /var/vmail