Oden Eriksson wrote: > m�ndagen den 27 januari 2003 12.48 skrev Buchan Milne: > >>Oden Eriksson wrote: >> >>>Buchan Milne writes: >>> >>>>The big issue is migrating mail which is in mbox files. That's why my >>>>first prodcution mail server *still* runs UW. And unfortunately that >>>>affects all current Maildir server. Would be nice if there were a >>>>mbox2maildir migration IMAP server ;-). >>> >>>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=mbox2maildir&btnG= >>>Goo gle+Search >>>http://freshmeat.net/projects/imapmigration >> >>Sure, there is also imapcopy >>(http://www.jplanglois.com/products/imapcp/) and mb2md >>(http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/mb2md/), but one can't just >>dump uw while people have mail servers running it ... > > > Yes I see, this needs to be done methodical and carefully. Are there many > users? Downtime is unaceptable?
About 80 users, downtime unacceptable in the day, and must be minimised after hours (some people use webmail from home or overseas). > > >>I must still get around to testing these, and then migrate ... >> >>And we don't like disturbing the users too much, mail server upgrade is >>dependant on our recently completed file server migration ... the kind >>of thigns you don't want to do simultaneously! > > > He he he, no it would be to much to keep track of. > Well, primary server (including ldap master, windows domain controller amanda etc) is running fine, and the old server is up and running as a hot spare with rysnc syncing nightly (we will have to see if rsync can keep 130GB of data in sync over 128k ISDN ;-)). So that means we can start play^H^H^H^Hworking on the mail server .... > >>>>Also, the KDE kolab project uses cyrus ... so do we want 4 IMAP servers >>>>in the distro? >>> >>>Then we won't see either kolab or cyrus-imap in mandrake because of the >>>cyrus-imap license? >> >>According to FM it's OSI-approved, and from reading it, it seems almost >>identical (except for paragraph 4 which seems to reiterate 1 and 2 but >>for some distribution besides source or binary?) to the modified >>GPL-compatible BSD: >> >>http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/license.html >> >>Of course Mandrake uses the GPL-incompatibly-licensed postfix (IBM >>public license) as default MTA ;-) > > > I don't know about the license model, but I vaugly recall a discussion on this > list some time ago that it would not make it. > Still no response on it ... > Well..., back on topic. I would like people to test this new server and report > to me their experience. It's very promising. I will test it in production > myself this week. > OK, we have a spare box that happens to run cooker, and I have bincimap installed but Mozilla don't like it. 1)Do I need to maildirmake ~/Maildir as with courier, and if so how (urpmf maildirmake gives courier-imap which conflicts with bincimap :-() 2)Anything else I need for non-ssl but to bounce xinetd and configure /etc/pam.d/checkpassword-pam ? telnet to 143 gives: Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.37... Connected to caeisd1.xxx.xxx.xx (xxx.xxx.xxx.37). Escape character is '^]'. Storage::load("/etc/bincimap.conf") succeeded 11128 00000 [unknown@???.???.???.???:] Connection from * OK Welcome to Binc IMAP v1.0.17 (c) Copyright 2002, 2003 Andreas Aardal Hanssen at 2003-01-30T04:01:49Z No mods to /etc/bincimap.conf, ~ is on NFS mount, should I try setting path = "./Maildir/" to be local? But mozilla still don't want to play. Are there more docs than 'rpm -qd bincimap' ? Regards, Buchan -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
