Move POP3 mailboxes and users on another server

My Windows 2003 server became faulty because of hardware problems. It serves
multiple purposes, but the most critical ones are SMTP and POP3. I'm not
running Exchange, just built-in "SMTP virtual server".

As a temp solution I'd like to configure another machine as my mail server.
What's the easiest way to move user accounts (they are in active directory),
user mailboxes and smtp/pop specific settings to another box?


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Regards,
Dmitry Duginov

PeterD
Mon Nov 27 12:54:13 CST 2006

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:06:04 -0500, "Dmitry Duginov"
<dima@nospam.nospam> wrote:

>My Windows 2003 server became faulty because of hardware problems. It serves
>multiple purposes, but the most critical ones are SMTP and POP3. I'm not
>running Exchange, just built-in "SMTP virtual server".
>
>As a temp solution I'd like to configure another machine as my mail server.
>What's the easiest way to move user accounts (they are in active directory),
>user mailboxes and smtp/pop specific settings to another box?

I'll probably get a dozen replies that "this won't work" but I've used
xcopy in the past successfully to move mail boxes and their contents.
You must create the domains first before copy, however.

It's been a while since I did one of these so I may be over
simplifying things...