divorce email and shell accounts?

I have a shell account that I created when I first started with DH (pre-April-2008), and when I created my email account, I associated it with the shell account.

Now I'd like to separate the two, and have an ordinary "Fully-Hosted Email" account and a UNIX shell account. I can find no way to do this in the WebPanel, nor any clue how to do this from the Wiki (although the page on how to associate mail accounts with shell accounts is still there, there is no counter page).

I suppose I could delete the email account and then re-add a new email account with the same name, but I suspect that would kinda flip blingy's little mind?

Anyone know how to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance,

No way around this. Your mailboxes are in the shell account, and short of a generous soul in Support manually making the switchover for you, you're going to have to delete and re-add. You don't have file access to where mail directories are now stored.

-Scott

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Now I'd like to separate the two, and have an ordinary "Fully-Hosted Email" account and a UNIX shell account. I can find no way to do this in the WebPanel, nor any clue how to do this from the Wiki (although the page on how to associate mail accounts with shell accounts is still there, there is no counter page).

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DreamHost might have already made this change for you as part of an automatic system update. The only way to tell for sure is to check your shell acount Maildir:

1. Send a message to your public e-mail address.
2. Find the name of your webserver (click on Account Status in the Web Panel, but you should know by heart if you are using shell access)
3. Send a message to your shell user on the web server. For example: shell user "bob" on web server "secret" - send message to bob@secret.dreamhost.com
4. SSH in as "bob" and check ~/Maildir/new
5. If you only see the message file for "bob@secret.dreamhost.com" then the public email address is divorced from the shell account.








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