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:
>
> First of all, this is a really stupid situation we should never have run
> into in the first place ; however :
>
> 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.
>
> What I need to do now, and I am discovering qmail, is a way to get all the
> mail from the distant server to be sent to our machine with a minimum of
> fuss and if possible transparent to the users (just being late, extra
> headers don't hurt as long as they are of the kind lusers see by default
> in their mailer).
>
> I have started plunging into the really dense documentation of qmail and
> read some interesting contributions in the archive of this list, compiled
> maildircmd and taken a look at its doc as well.
>
> While I feel that there must be a simple solution short of writing a
> brute-force-and-ignorance-script with a complete list of maildirs to be
> processed, I lack the experience to figure this out on my own.
>
> Thanks in advance to the list for some pointers to intelligent solutions
> for my stupid problem.
>
> --
> Best Regards
> Andr� Morin
>
