On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 09:13:25AM -0500, Tony Campisi wrote:
[snip]
> There are approx 250 users with their own home directories. I also have
> about 50 aliases in .qmail files under
> /var/qmail/alias. Mail 2 is ready to go. qmail, ucspi-tcp-0.88,
> checkpassword-0.90 and daemontools-0.76 are installed. I have added the
> users and aliases on the new server. The control files have been added.
> The users' Maildir folders have been made. I
> can send mail in and out of the new server.
> My problem is the mail residing on mail 1. I need to make sure that the
> mail in the mail 1 queue gets delivered to mail 2 once I swap the
> computers.
> Can someone offer their opinions on the 'best' way to do this?
How about:
- move all mail from mail1 to mail2
- switch over to mail2
- frequently move any mail delivered onto mail1 (you *are* using
maildir, right?) to mail2. (rsync may be of help here), until queue
on mail1 is empty.
Greetz, Peter
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