On 20 May 2001, at 4:46, Pascal Nobus wrote:
> Someone with experience please advise.
>
> We want to change a mailserver from sendmail to qmail.
> -There will be a few hunderd virtual domains (all with the same IP) on
> that machine. -Some users must be able to control email-adresses for
> one or more domains: handled over http with PHP (I'll write the engine
> myself) -use of IMAP. -use of Majordomo -In the future we want to use
> LDAP for authentication (not for now)
>
> [...]
> I'll hope I'm not the first that will do such a thing...
> Thx in advance.
>
Pascal,
You are certainly not the first person to switch an existing
Sendmail server to qmail. I did it myself just a short time ago. Mind
you I did not have the number of virtual domains you do. Nor did I
have many users, so I took the easy approach ... Start from
scratch...
However, that is obviously not the best advice for you. What I would
suggest is to pick up the book by Richard Blum called Running
qmail. It's published by Sams, and should be readily available at
most reputable bookstores.
There is an entire section of the book dedicated soley to migrating
from Sendmail. And it explains how to convert your existing aliases
file and virtusertable file so you can use them with qmail. I think
you'll find it very useful... It will still take sometime on your part to
get the files converted, but it will be quicker tham creating them
from scratch, and you won't be sorry you switched to qmail.
Good Luck
Dean
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