Richard,
I (and possible others) would be interested in your experiences, any
gotchas that you ran into. I am looking at converting 15,000 users and
1200 virtual domains away from sendmail to qmail as soon as I
can learn all of the qmail options.
Thanks,
--tony
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Roderick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Michael T. Halligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Daniel Mattos"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 3:35 PM
Subject: Re: Sendmail Virtusertable equivalent?
> In answer to the original question:
>
> It's not easy. I just finished developing the tools to deal with all of
it.
> Other people have tools readily available. I didn't like them. I already
> had my 500+ domains in a MySQL database dealing with everything, so I
added
> support for the creating the .qmail files necessary to accomplish the
task.
>
> I have not converted to qmail yet, I am in the setup and testing phase
(99%
> done).
> This particular task has been way too difficult and I feel there is a
major
> need for some talented qmail person to deal with the issue of
virtusertable
> in a fastforward like program. (If not fastforward itself)
>
> I get the impression that the easiest solution is to move it all to the
> aliases file and use fastforward. Not my idea of clean.
>
> Anyway. I made tools to do what this guy asked for because, it ain't easy
> or it ain't documented well. (I realize similar tools were already
available
> but didn't necessarily work with my data set ;)
>
> Richard
> PS. If you care:
>
> System: Multiple FreeBSD boxes behind a server iron.
>
> For SMTP I'm running qmail with these patches:
> big-todo, concurrency, tarpit, dns, etrn (modified patch from some ones
> email,
> it just says "yes i support etrn"), and qmail-popbull (modified to
> record which
> bulletins had been downloaded by each user in their .popbull file)
>
> For POP3 I'm running Mysql+Qmail checkpassword and qmail-pop3d. (slight
> modification to deal with qmail not using Mysql)
>
> For user file and pop authentication. Mysql database generating
> users/assign. Mysql database used for pop authentication.
>
> For virtual mail and mail forwards. Mysql databases managing .qmail files.
>
> Need to: Setup EZMLM and vacation support.
>
> (*Thank you* to *ALL* the great people who made doing this possible!!!)
> (Dan,Russell,Dave, etc!) (sorry only 3 first names I remember :( )
>
>
