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Posted: **Tue Sep 23, 2025 5:02 am**

Old server:

Create an empty file to store all aliases and set file ownership to zimbra

# touch /tmp/all_accts_aliases.txt && chown zimbra:zimbra /tmp/all_accts_aliases.txt

# su - zimbra

Export all aliases into a file.

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$ for accts in $(zmprov -l gaa | grep -Ev "^(spam|ham|virus|galsync)"); do zmprov ga $accts zimbraMailAlias | awk -v acct=$accts ' /zimbraMailAlias:/  {print "aaa", acct, $2}' >> /tmp/all_accts_aliases.txt; done

Example:
aaa hashir.saud@domain.com 1234@domain.com
aaa ali@domain.com 4545@domain.com

Copy the aliases file to the new server

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# scp /tmp/all_accts_aliases.txt root@<new_server_ip>:/tmp/

New Server:

Set file ownership to zimbra

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# chown zimbra:zimbra /tmp/all_accts_aliases.txt

# su - zimbra

Import all aliases into the new server

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$ zmprov < /tmp/all_accts_aliases.txt

Delete bulk user aliases:

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# touch /tmp/del_all_accts_aliases.txt && chown zimbra:zimbra /tmp/del_all_accts_aliases.txt

# su - zimbra

$ for accts in $(zmprov -l gaa | grep -Ev "^(admin|spam|ham|galsync)"); do zmprov ga $accts zimbraMailAlias | awk -v acct=$accts ' /zimbraMailAlias:/  {print "raa", acct, $2}' >> /tmp/del_all_accts_aliases.txt; done

Example:
raa hashir.saud@domain.com 1234@domain.com
raa ali@domain.com 4545@domain.com

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$ zmprov < /tmp/del_all_accts_aliases.txt

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