>From experience, we migrated a mail queue of 30,000+ users using that
script, and didn't lose a single message. Worked beautifully. Was a
Q-mail 1.03 installation on a FBSD 3.4 server.
-Gary
"One World, one Web, one Program" - Microsoft promotional ad
"Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer" - Adolf Hitler
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Brian Sweeney wrote:
> >From http://www.qmail.org:
>
> "Eric Huss has released queue-fix 1.4
> (http://www.netmeridian.com/e-huss/queue-fix.tar.gz). It repairs or
> generates a qmail queue structure. You can use this to help move your queue
> location, or if you regenerate the file system and the inode numbering
> changes. It will also fix permissions and ownerships of the files. Eric
> reports that Matthew Harrell wrote a patch to queue-fix
> (http://www.pingpackets.com/mirrors/qmail/queue-fix-todo.patch) which makes
> it work with Russ Nelson's big-todo patch. Patches upon patches!"
>
> I've never tried it, so I don't know if it works from personal experience...
>
> -Brian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick McMillin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 11:12 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Transferring queue?
>
>
> We're upgrading to newer, more powerful servers and
> my question involves the queue on the old servers.
> Is there a safe, reliable way to just transfer the
> queue to the new servers right away, or would it be
> best to simply leave the old servers up for 7 days
> so that the messages can just dissapear on their own?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rick McMillin
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Systems Administrator
> Manager, Network Operations
> I-Land Internet Services
>
>
