Moving the mail files to another location under Qmail

[kkuti]

Plesk 7.5 for UNIX/Linux ---Need help please. We have run out of space on the partition where the mail files reside. I have moved the files to another larger partition. I just need to let qmail know where to drop the new mails. Currently mails are bouncing with the message -- Sorry, no mailbox by that name here.
Have tried to change all references to the new partition via xinetd, init.d and the control files. Also have run qmail -showctl which still shows that /var/qmail is the qmail directory. Is it not possible to change this.

 

[kkuti]

Problem solved after some searching round.
Once you have moved the mail files to the new location then you need to go to /var/qmail/control/assign and change all refrences to the new locations. Then run /var/qmail/bin/qmail-newu to produce a new cdb. Check you maintain all the permissions as they previously were. IMAP and POP3 need to know about the new locations , as in this case on Linux running xinetd, make the change there. All the best.