You need to copy ~qmail/users also. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Romain Griffiths" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 12:56 PM Subject: Moving the user database
> I'd like to move my user and domains database which runs vpopmail-4.9.10 > to a new computer running vpopmail-5.0. > > I use the default user/domain storing facility in vpopmail-4.9.10 (I do > not use any mysql or ldap database backend). > > User/domain/mails/passwords seems to be in ~vpopmail/domains so I'd > like to know if moving the domain file hierarchie will be enough to move > all vpopmail data ? > > > This is the protocol I have planned : > > 1) stop qmail-smtpd > 2) stop qmail-pop3d > 3) stop qmailadmin et vqadmin (httpd stop) > 4) wait for the qmail-queue to be empty > 5) copy ~qmail/control to the new mailserver > 6) move ~vpopmail/domains to the new mailserver > 7) shut down the old mailserver > 8) change the ip address of the new mailserver to match the old address. > 9) take a beer. > > Does this protocol seems correct ? > > What is ~vpopmail/users ? > > > Thank you. > > > >
