Can I rename my old box and gain access to it?

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I had my box on Digital Ocean but Outlook.com had flagged the IP as being from a spammer. No amount of emails could get them to change.

So I have moved to a new IP and successfully set up my box.

However, I’m having trouble moving the backup over the new box.

But I don’t really care or need that. If I can sign into the old box and read any old mail I happen to need, that’d be fine.

I figure: new domain name, new glue, rename Digital Ocean droplet to box.newdomainname.com, and sudo mailbox.

Will this work or will it hopelessly mess everything up?

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Yes, it will work.

Also if your old box is still up and running, you can rsync the /home/user-data/ from the old to the new. Then delete the contents of the /home/user-data/ssl/ directory. THEN rerun sudo mailinabox. You should then have all of your users and email in place on the new box.

3

Thank you. It worked!

For some reason, the SSL Certificate of box.domainname.com didn’t go over and would not let me do the auto Let’s Encrypt, do I manually inserted a Zero SSL certificate.

But otherwise, pretty happy.