Interestingly, I'm in a similar situation, only my messages are still
in the queue. Normally, I would just put ":new.server.name" in my
smtproutes, and have it dump its queue, but it's already put all of
the local messages in the "local" section of the queue, which doesn't
look at smtproutes. Is there a clever way to make this work?
Can I just move them into the remote directory, then run the queue?
Or tar up the queue directory, move it onto the new machine in a temp
directory, run qmail-qfix, and then rename the files over into their
new locations?
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
-----ScottG.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 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
> >
