I'm thinking of doing the same as this, but in my case moving from a Postfix
based email system to e-smith.
Postfix defaults to storing the mail in /var/spool/mail/username.
I thought I saw somewhere (and I can't find it now) a program which could be
used to "transfer / translate" these mail files to the appropriate qmail
format. Has my (faulty) memory worked at all? Has anyone else heard of this?
Regards,
Hugh Fox
Tech Manager
www.drcauto.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Rob Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: e-smith-Dev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Changing from sendmail to qmail?
> <Headers reduced to just the list again>
>
> After a bit of digging I figure all I need to do is copy the
> /var/spool/mail/user file to ~user/Mailbox (after I create the users in
the
> console)
>
> Anyone think of anything else I need to take care of.
>
> (I'll be retiring the mails erver after this, going down to one machine..)
>
> Rob.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Darrell May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'Gordon Rowell'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Charlie Brady"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Dean Staff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "e-smith-Dev"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 3:50 AM
> Subject: RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Changing from sendmail to qmail?
>
>
> > > From: Gordon Rowell, Wednesday, January 31, 2001 9:55 AM
> > > My personal preference (not speaking in e-smith context here)
> > > is to do fresh
> > > OS installs whenever I do an "upgrade". It is a good
> > > opportunity to remove
> > > the unwanted clutter.
> >
> > I agree with Gordon. Often our work involves taking over a
> > client/project/server where a long legacy of install/upgrades have gone
> > before. Things are typically a mess and sometimes it is not even
readily
> > apparent. A fresh install gives us the opportunity to do it right. It
is
> > so quick to set-up an e-smith server, in an hour you can just about have
a
> > ready-to-role, username populated, data transferred, fresh server
install
> > completed.
> >
> > I even see the potential of using an e-smith server as a quick disaster
> > recovery model for Novell/NT server failures. Again, in less then an
hour
> > you can grab any office workstation, set it up as an e-smith server to
> keep
> > an office running whilst you undertake the possible time consuming
rebuild
> > of a Novell/NT server.
> >
> > Darrell
> >
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