If it was delivered to maildirs, would a simple tar / FTP /untar solution
work ?? assuming ofcourse that both machines have the same maildir setup ?
At 02:38 AM 6/29/00 +0200, you wrote:
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>On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> 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 ?
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>> On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 02:03:46AM +0200, Andre Morin wrote:
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>> > Unfortunately, the second option is what I have to face.
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>> 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.
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>> 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,
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>Yes there was.
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>> then you'll need a way to separate them.
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>> 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.
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>Nearly all use simple maildir delivery.
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>How would I do this ?
>Write a script to grep out the last Delivered-to: header ?
>Use some qmail-program to do that ?
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>What would be the right way to do the qmail-inject then ?
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>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 ?
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>> If you are not so lucky, then it'll be painful and thankless and
>> probably imperfect and there is no one solution.
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>I am really a comple newbie to qmail, while I am discovering the doc, I am
>quite amazed about its nifty design.
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>The other option for me would be some ugly script doing some rsync-alike
>things to the maildirectories of the users.
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>Thank You for your responsiveness, even if you confirm what I felt :
>I'm in trouble...
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>> Regards.
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>> > > 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:
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>> > > > 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.
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