Engineer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 20:17:19 +0500 Hmm, putting off y2k for a couple years? :-) >I have a mail server on which currently I am running sendmail. The user >mailboxes are present under /usr/var/spool/mail. Now I am moving my mail >server to a new machine with Linux Slackware.I want to run qmail on my >new machine. All the mailboxes ,passwd and aliases file will transfer >with tape backup tar command to new machine.I have more than 24000 >mailboxes. Can anybody tell me how can I move from sendmail to qmail? Install qmail+daemontools+ucspi-tcp+fast-forward+dot-forward on the slackware box. Configure everything, including /var/spool/mail delivery. Test it. When it's OK, shut down the sendmail system, copy off the mailboxes, aliases, .forward files. Install them on the qmail box. Configure the qmail box to accept mail intended for the sendmail box (e.g., rcphosts, locals). Alternatively, move the mailboxes from /var/spool/mail to the user's home directory. You'll have to fix the MUA's to look for the mailbox in the new location. Is this the kind of info you were looking for? -Dave
