Manual migration of email forwarders and autoresponders

albatroz

• December 13, 2018 10:15

Days ago I migrated a domain from one CPanel server to another using this method How to Manually Transfer an Account Between Servers - cPanel Knowledge Base - cPanel Documentation but moved the /home/xxx folder manually because the source disk was almost full. Now it seems that some emails forwarders and autoresponders were not migrated so I am receiving this error message: pipe to |/usr/local/cpanel/bin/autorespond email@domain /home3/xxx/.autorespond It looks like the configuration for emails forwarders were not migrated, so I was wondering if there is a manual way for doing so.

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  GOT

  • December 13, 2018 16:50

  Forwarders are located in the file /etc/valiases/domain.com. You can just copy that file over, just make sure the ownership and permissions are correct when you are done.

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  cPanelMichael

  • December 17, 2018 19:36

  but moved the /home/xxx folder manually because the source disk was almost full.

  
  Hello @albatroz, This is not a supported method of manually transferring an account. Is there enough space on the source server to backup the account without the contents of it's public_html directory? If so, you'll want to backup the account on the source server using

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