Hello People,

I have a machine with Courier compiled and installed from the sources. Now I would like to install Courier from Debian packages there, because we want to have the binary packages on all our machines with Debian.

The main problem is a location of a mail queue. The old queue is placed in /var/spool/mailqueue, but the new queue - in /var/lib/courier. Fortunately the both locations are on the same LVM volume.

Has someone any experience with moving mail queue in the situation like that? Is it possible? Is it safe?

I know that Courier uses an inode number in the name of control files, but an inode number of a file shouldn't be changed when I move the file using mv command. Am I right?

I've done the following test on my devel machine:

1. Stop Courier 2. Move a mail queue from /var/spool/mailqueue to /var/lib/courier 3. Move a mail queue back 4. Start Courier

and it seems that my Courier still works fine. Is it only a happy coincidence? ;)

I would be very thankful for your any comments.

My best regards,