On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:11:02 -0700
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: how do I resync two machines after MX confusion ?
>
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 02:03:46AM +0200, Andre Morin wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately, the second option is what I have to face.
>
>
> Then unless you have a way of definitively identifying which emails
> to extract from whathever local delivery method each user employs,
> then you have no perfect solution.
>
> If the user has control of the delivery/forwarding in any way,
> they may not be retreivable at all. If there was some user mail on the
> clone prior to the MX mixup,
Yes there was.
> then you'll need a way to separate them.
>
> If you are lucky and the only delivey method is Maildir and the only
> emails on that system are ones that can be redirected, then you
> can probably qmail-inject them back into your clone system with
> an smtproutes entry. You may need to grep out certain Delivered-to:
> headers to avoid hitting the anti-loop code of qmail.
Nearly all use simple maildir delivery.
How would I do this ?
Write a script to grep out the last Delivered-to: header ?
Use some qmail-program to do that ?
What would be the right way to do the qmail-inject then ?
Will I need to create a smtproute-file in spite of the fact that the
correct MX is now known to the DNS-servers used by the clone to resolve
names ?
> If you are not so lucky, then it'll be painful and thankless and
> probably imperfect and there is no one solution.
I am really a comple newbie to qmail, while I am discovering the doc, I am
quite amazed about its nifty design.
The other option for me would be some ugly script doing some rsync-alike
things to the maildirectories of the users.
Thank You for your responsiveness, even if you confirm what I felt :
I'm in trouble...
> Regards.
>
>
> > > It depends on where the mail is on this clone server. Is it in the
> > > mail queue or has it been locally delivered to users there?
> > >
> > > The former is much easier to deal with than the latter.
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 01:56:31AM +0200, Andre Morin wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Due to some not so interesting reasons, for a couple of days our DNS has
> > > > pointed to another machine with our cloned qmail-configuration on
> > > > another IP in another town. I have complete root access to that machine.
> > > >
> > > > Now everything is back as before, but while this machine was MX for quite
> > > > a bunch of virtual domains we host, the mail arrived there.
> >
>
