Is there a way to test NS7 to NS8 mail migration before "finish" is clicked?

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As the title suggests, I’m looking for a way to test my NS8 mail application before I finalize the migration. Reading the manual, it appears that the services on NS8 are not started until the finish button is clicked, I did try to manually connect my mail client to the NS8 server, and it appears to connect but no mail is present.

The migration seems to be successful, there is a large amount of data in my NS8 machine after the migration process, but the part that worries me is that I have mailboxes shown, but under Mail quota usage, the all say “unlimited quota, using 0 MiB”

I am in a Active Directory environment, and I needed to join the domain before it would let me migrate. I think it created accounts from the information on the AD, does it do something in the migration finalize step to tie everything together?

Thanks!
Steve

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It’s like explained in the manual, the mail services aren’t running, I guess the mail client isn’t really connecting.

To check the running mail services/containers:

runagent -m mail1 podman ps

You could check the mail data, it should be located in /home/mail1/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes/dovecot-data/_data/

After finishing the mail app migration, the mail services are started and accessible.

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The behavior you’re describing can be obtained only if some action was manually run on the NS8 UI, something that must be absolutely avoided.

If you did any manual configuration from NS8 UI abort the Mail migration from NS7 migration tool and start it again with a pristine Mail instance created for the purpose by NS7 migration tool, automatically.

We’re planning to lock the NS8 UI during the migration to avoid similar management errors.

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Synchronization was finished successfully, the user quota showed up after migration was finished.

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