Re: [vchkpw] make alias domain the main domain?

2006-06-29 Thread Paul Theodoropoulos
At 02:23 PM 6/28/2006, Tom Collins wrote: On Jun 28, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: so how the heck can i do that? i'm baffled how to change the name of an existing domain. i don't see any options in vqadmin or in the command line interface to accomplish this. Edit

Re: [vchkpw] make alias domain the main domain?

2006-06-29 Thread Remo Mattei
just add an alias with valiasdomain and you are set... Ciao Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: At 02:23 PM 6/28/2006, Tom Collins wrote: unfortunately, this doesn't work. or at least, i made the change as specified, i created a new user at hvvi.com, then tried setting up an autoresponder in

Re: [vchkpw] make alias domain the main domain?

2006-06-29 Thread Paul Theodoropoulos
At 01:15 PM 6/29/2006, you wrote: just add an alias with valiasdomain and you are set... there's already an alias domain in place - that's the whole issue. Paul Theodoropoulos http://www.anastrophe.com http://www.smileglobal.com http://www.forumgarden.com

Re: [vchkpw] make alias domain the main domain?

2006-06-29 Thread Remo Mattei
you can have more than one alias per domain. Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: At 01:15 PM 6/29/2006, you wrote: there's already an alias domain in place - that's the whole issue. Paul Theodoropoulos http://www.anastrophe.com http://www.smileglobal.com http://www.forumgarden.com

Re: [vchkpw] make alias domain the main domain?

2006-06-29 Thread Paul Theodoropoulos
At 01:25 PM 6/29/2006, you wrote: you can have more than one alias per domain. that's irrelevant to the issue as far as i can tell. existing main domain - rfpowerdevices.com existing alias domain - hvvi.com customer wants to drop appearance of rfpowerdevices.com when users create

Re: [vchkpw] make alias domain the main domain?

2006-06-29 Thread Remo Mattei
then the way I would do it this: copy the users from the location under the old dir domain rfpowerdevices.com delete the domain create a script that will recreate all the users you can do this very easily by doing an ls -l |grep etc... the run vadduser -n is you have the option in vpopmail to

Re: [vchkpw] make alias domain the main domain?

2006-06-29 Thread Paul Theodoropoulos
At 01:57 PM 6/29/2006, you wrote: then the way I would do it this: copy the users from the location under the old dir domain rfpowerdevices.com delete the domain create a script that will recreate all the users you can do this very easily by doing an ls -l |grep etc... the run vadduser -n is

Re: [vchkpw] make alias domain the main domain?

2006-06-29 Thread Tom Collins
On Jun 29, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Remo Mattei wrote: copy the users from the location under the old dir domain rfpowerdevices.com delete the domain create a script that will recreate all the users you can do this very easily by doing an ls -l |grep etc... the run vadduser -n is you have the option

Re: [vchkpw] make alias domain the main domain?

2006-06-29 Thread Paul Theodoropoulos
At 03:09 PM 6/29/2006, Tom Collins wrote: On Jun 29, 2006, at 1:07 PM, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: unfortunately, this doesn't work. or at least, i made the change as specified, i created a new user at hvvi.com, then tried setting up an autoresponder in qmailadmin as the user would do - it

Re: [vchkpw] make alias domain the main domain?

2006-06-29 Thread Paul Theodoropoulos
At 03:29 PM 6/29/2006, you wrote: At 03:09 PM 6/29/2006, Tom Collins wrote: If you just changed +hvvi.com-:rfpowerdevices.com: to +hvvi.com-:hvvi.com:, I don't readily see where it would fail. now that i see that i'm a dumbass, i don't see how it could fail either! i completely overlooked

Re: [vchkpw] make alias domain the main domain?

2006-06-29 Thread Tom Collins
On Jun 29, 2006, at 3:35 PM, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: well, i did it, and it still didn't work. this time, with both lines changed, vqadmin saw hvvi.com as the 'real' domain, and rfpowerdevices as the alias - and showed no users for either. so i had to rapidly switch back for fear of

Re: [vchkpw] make alias domain the main domain?

2006-06-29 Thread Paul Theodoropoulos
At 03:52 PM 6/29/2006, you wrote: On Jun 29, 2006, at 3:35 PM, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: well, i did it, and it still didn't work. this time, with both lines changed, vqadmin saw hvvi.com as the 'real' domain, and rfpowerdevices as the alias - and showed no users for either. so i had to

Re: [vchkpw] make alias domain the main domain?

2006-06-29 Thread Tom Collins
On Jun 29, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: gotcha. since i need to keep vqadmin consistent for various reasons, i think i'll try doing a complete overhaul of the domain the 'old fashioned way'. If you're using cdb, here's a sneaky way to do it... First, backup the domain on the

Re: [vchkpw] make alias domain the main domain?

2006-06-29 Thread Paul Theodoropoulos
At 04:34 PM 6/29/2006, Tom Collins wrote: If you're using cdb, here's a sneaky way to do it... mysql db backend here. thanks for the writeup though - and i'm certain someone on the list will find it useful at some point, so good to have it out there. what i'm going to do is just write down

[vchkpw] make alias domain the main domain?

2006-06-28 Thread Paul Theodoropoulos
vpopmail 5.4.10 vqadmin 2.3.5 i have a customer that began a new business using one domain - rfpowerdevices.com - and shortly thereafter decided to use hvvi.com as their domain. since rfpowerdevices.com was in place with users and mail, i just added hvvi.com as an alias domain. a year

Re: [vchkpw] make alias domain the main domain?

2006-06-28 Thread Tom Collins
On Jun 28, 2006, at 1:26 PM, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: so how the heck can i do that? i'm baffled how to change the name of an existing domain. i don't see any options in vqadmin or in the command line interface to accomplish this. Edit /var/qmail/users/assign. You'll find two entries

Re: [vchkpw] make alias domain the main domain?

2006-06-28 Thread Paul Theodoropoulos
At 02:23 PM 6/28/2006, Tom Collins wrote: Believe me, it's easier to just keep the old directory name. You (the server admin) should be the only person who will se it. excellent - thanks very much, that makes sense and is a heck of a lot easier than what i was thinking i'd have to do (tar up