recompiling vpopmail is dangerous ?
hello, i am running a qmail+vpopmail+sqwebmail box with lots of domains and hundreds of vpopmail-users. my question now is: if i ever have to recompile and install my vpopmail package in order to add additional functions configure offers, will this affect existing vpopmail domaims users ? is it possible to compile and install vpopmail with its base settings, if a new installation fails to work ? we have a lot of important customers and cannot risk to loose any of them! -- regards,jens --- instant networks - netzwerkmanagment internetfullservices
Re: recompiling vpopmail is dangerous ?
With the amount of times I've installed newer versions of VPOPMail on top of itself on a Production Server. In my opinion it's pretty safe. Just make sure you have the right database information set-up in advance. -Rich - Original Message - From: Jens Georg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: vpopmail mailinglist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 11:16 Subject: recompiling vpopmail is dangerous ? hello, i am running a qmail+vpopmail+sqwebmail box with lots of domains and hundreds of vpopmail-users. my question now is: if i ever have to recompile and install my vpopmail package in order to add additional functions configure offers, will this affect existing vpopmail domaims users ? is it possible to compile and install vpopmail with its base settings, if a new installation fails to work ? we have a lot of important customers and cannot risk to loose any of them! -- regards,jens -- - instant networks - netzwerkmanagment internetfullservices
Re: recompiling vpopmail is dangerous ?
Everything should be fine. At the very least, back up your current binaries from ~vpopmail/bin. If you want to be very safe, make sure you backup your ~vpopmail/domains directory, and if you use a database, dump the database to disk just in case. Jens Georg wrote: hello, i am running a qmail+vpopmail+sqwebmail box with lots of domains and hundreds of vpopmail-users. my question now is: if i ever have to recompile and install my vpopmail package in order to add additional functions configure offers, will this affect existing vpopmail domaims users ? is it possible to compile and install vpopmail with its base settings, if a new installation fails to work ? we have a lot of important customers and cannot risk to loose any of them! -- regards,jens --- instant networks - netzwerkmanagment internetfullservices -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. www.inter7.coom - 847-492-0470 Prices at http://www.inter7.com/prices
