The migrate task should provide the option to retain the current mysql settings ( database name, user name & password ).

This functionality is needed because "The Mailfix module integrates Drupal with Postfix, providing email accounts to regular Drupal accounts."

The virtual mail domain setting involved require credentials to be stored in several sql configuration files. The current migrate task alters the mysql credentials which in turns shuts down the mail system.

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adrian’s picture

adrian commented
Priority: Critical » Normal
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

This is counter to how Aegir is built, so I'm going to set this as by design.

I do understand the problem here though, but it was a strict design decision we made
not to mess up the site that is already working, and install a new one in paralel
so we can back out when something bad happens.

Perhaps you can put these tables on a different database and use the
provision hooks to modify the generated settings.php so that it uses
db_prefix on those tables.

This is about the only situation i would recommend DB prefix at all.