On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 11:23:36AM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote:
> 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?
Assuming the local deliveries are currently failing temporarily (perhaps
due to a home dir not existing or somesuch), then probably the easiest
thing is to create a default alias that catches all those mails and
delivers them to a Maildir, then use maildirtosmtp out of the serialmail
package.
I don't know of an easy way to change a local delivery to a remote
delivery by twiddling the queue. That decision is made as part of the
queue entry creation, not part of the rescan of qmail-send.
Regards.
>
> 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
> > >
