> I finally upgraded a few years old qmail-toaster installation to the
> newest version under CentOS 3.
>
> I thought I'd share my experiences, If someone else is planning a same
> kind of operation.
>
> First I shutdown my toaster:
>
> service qmail stop
>
> Now no new messages are accepted and they are queued at the sending
> end (I have no 2ndary MX). I sent a test message outside the server
> just to find out how soon the message would reach me after I got my
> toaster back up and running (the result: I received the message about
> 6hrs after my toaster was started again).
>
> Got backup script from
> http://v2gnu.com/qmail/qmail-restore-script-1.2.tar.gz
>
> Unpackaged the backup script:
>
> tar xfz qmail-restore-script-1.2.tar.gz
>
> Edited the user variables and mysql settings in qmail-backup script and
> then ran it:
>
> ./qmail-backup-2.7.sh
>
> The backup took several hours to complete.
>
> Then I removed conflicting old packages:
>
> rpm -e --nodeps libdomainkeys control-panel-toaster spamassassin-toaster
> \
> courier-imap-toaster-doc
>
> And installed a dependency I knew (from my test upgrade) I would need
> (these are probably CentOS 3 specific):
>
> yum install pcre-devel
> wget \
> ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/download.fedora.us/fedora/redhat/9/i386/RPMS.stable/perl-forward-compat-5.8.0-0.fdr.2.i386.rpm
> rpm -ivh perl-forward-compat-5.8.0-0.fdr.2.i386.rpm
>
> Next I used the upgrade script from http://wiki.qmailtoaster.com that
> I had downloaded previously. It downloads the needed packages,
> recompiles them and then installs them. You can probably do this by
> hand, too. The script I used was "Last modified: May 26, 2006". The
> script has been updated since and uses a sandbox nowadays. I did not
> try with the new script. If you need the one I used, I can send a
> copy.
>
> I edited the variables in the beginning of the scrip to match my setup:
>
> DISTRO=rht90
> ARCH=i386
> BDIR=redhat
>
> And then ran it:
>
> ./qmailtoaster_upgrade.sh
>
> After the script finished, I checked my mysql setup from
> /var/qmail/control/sql and inserted
> the same info to the new mysql setup file
> /home/vpopmail/etc/vpopmail.mysql
>
> As I wanted spam and virus checking only for one domain for starters,
> I edited the new file /var/qmail/simcontrol:
>
> example.com:clam=yes,spam=yes,spam_hits=12,attach=.src:.bat:.pif
> :clam=no,spam=no,spam_hits=12,attach=.src:.bat:.pif
>
> As I use smtproutes, I wanted to disable domainkeys. I also found out
> that badmimetypes was also blocking attachments (.exe for example)
> which I wanted to get rid of. So I edited
>
> I also found out that I needed to setup the Qmail Toaster Admin
> htaccess password again with htpasswd and that qmailadmin URL had
> changed to /qmailadmin/ (at least with me it was previously at
> /toaster.admin/ orsimiliar) /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.smtp to look like
> this:
>
> 127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
> 123.123.123.123:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
> :allow,CHKUSER_RCPTLIMIT="50",CHKUSER_WRONGRCPTLIMIT="10",QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/simscan"
>
> where 123.123.123.123 was my email server's ip address. I rebuilt the cdb:
>
> cd /etc/tcprules.d/
> tcprules tcp.smtp.cdb tcp.smtp.tmp < tcp.smtp
>
> Then I replaced the startup init script to the new one:
>
> cd /etc/init.d/
> mv qmail.rpmnew qmail
>
> And started the service.
>
> After startup everything else was fine, except that I found out that
> mail sent from command line did not get a domain set correctly (it was
> empty). I found out that in /var/qmail/control/
> new files defaulthost and defaultdomain were created and that they
> were empty. I added my host and domain name to those files, restarted
> the service and everything was fine after that.
>
yes, great write-up. would this be a good thing to put on the wiki just
in case someone wanted to read it without digging through emails?
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