AAAHHH. That's what I was looking for!
The part about using the fastforward to do it was what I could not find,
and I'm no expert.
Someone needs to add this to the Qmail web site.
All in all, I'm very happy with what I have now which is not dependent
on the old method, but I can see advantages to what Jay is doing when
it comes to simplicity.
Thanks Jay!
Richard
At 08:07 PM 12/6/99 -0500, Jay Soffian wrote:
> "Richard" == Richard Roderick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Richard> In answer to the original question: It's not easy. I just
> Richard> finished developing the tools to deal with all of it.
>
>
>I handled this conversion in < 1 hour for over 30 domains. 300 or 3000
>domains would have taken no longer since I built myself tools. I found
>it pretty damn trivial. Perl is your friend. But you could do this
>with sed, awk and grep.
>
>What I did:
>
>Grep out all the domains on the LHS from the sendmail virtualuser
>table and put them in /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains all with the
>same RHS like so:
>
>domain-a.com:alias-virtualdomains
>domain-b.com:alias-virtualdomains
>domain-c.com:alias-virtualdomains
>...
>
>awk makes that pretty simple:
>
>awk '/^#/{next};/^ *$/{next};{split($1,a,/@/);print
>a[2]":alias-virtualdomains"}' \
>< /etc/mail/virtusertable >> /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains
>
>Install fastforward (see http://www.qmail.org).
>
>Setup ~alias/.qmail-virtualdomains-default:
>
>echo "|/var/qmail/bin/fastforward -d /var/qmail/etc/virtualaliases.cdb" >
>~alias/.qmail-virtualdomains-default
>
>Build /var/qmail/etc/virtualaliases.cdb. I'd use a perl script for
>that depending upon complexity. I'd send you the one I used if I could
>still find it... virtualaliases is similar to sendmail's
>virtusertable, but more flexible.
>
>For example, virtualaliases allows multiple addresses on the RHS. With
>sendmail, you can only use a single address on the RHS which you then
>need to expand in the aliases file to multiple addresses.
>
>If you only have a single address on the RHS in virtusertable, the
>conversion is simple, just add a ':' after every address in the LHS
>and add a ';' after every address on the RHS. You can do that with
>awk:
>
>awk '/^#/{next};/^ *$/{next};{print $1":\t"$2";"}' \
>< virtusertable >> /var/qmail/etc/virtualaliases
>
>Clean up virtualaliases as needed, you'll want to fully qualify
>addresses on the RHS. If any of the RHS addresses actually appear in
>your /etc/aliases, then you'll want to expand those out. If you have a
>bunch, I suggest you write a script to iterate through all the LHS
>addresses and call sendmail -bv to expand out the RHS.
>
>Don't forget to turn the virtualaliases file into a cdb:
>
>setforward virtualaliases.cdb virtualaliases.tmp < virtualaliases
>
>Good luck. You'll be happier with qmail in the long run. Trust
>me. I've administered both for quite some time.
>
>Also, people on this list are more receptive if you lose the attitude.
>
>j.
>--
>Jay Soffian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UNIX Systems Engineer
>404.572.1941 Cox Interactive Media
>
