On Wed, 22 May 2002, Hans Birgander wrote:
> > have just upgraded my XMail server for the first time, and found some > strange things during the process. > Is there any one out there that have a best practice about how to upgrade > XMail on Linux (RH 7.2)? > > Anyway, What I did was to stop XMail, renamed /var/MailRoot -> > /var/Mailroot.1.6 (Yes I skipped 1.7) > Installed 1.8 from the prebuilt RPM (had to do it with the --force option), > I copied the .tab files from /var/MailRoot.1.6 to /var/MailRoot.1.8 (A small > change in server.tab was kept from the 1.8 server.tab) > I also copied the domains and spool directories (after having removed the > existing ones). > > XMail then started without any problems and I was able to send outgoing > mail, but incomming mail did not work. > Testing resulted in an "failure delviery" with the following information > > ---snip--- > Unable to deliver message to the following address(es). > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 217.215.11.128 does not like recipient. > Remote host said: 550 Relay denied > Giving up on 217.215.11.128. > ---snip--- > > It wasn't until I deleted another (testing)domain and enabled it again, the > incomming mail started to work. > It works fine now. > Any ideas why this happend, > and any ideas on how to upgrade the next time. please, if you have a bare minimum experience do not you the rpm. just build binaries ( make -f Makefile.xxx ) and replace them after having stopped the server. remember also to read carefully the ChangeLog file to see if there's something to be change inside the configuration. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
