On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 10:22:43PM -0600, Tim Wilson wrote: > I was hoping that some of you may have experience moving a large number of > email users from one system to another. To be an ass: root at newbox$ scp root at oldbox:/etc/mail/* /etc/mail/ root at newbox$ /etc/init.d/sendmail start > What did you do with incoming messages during the transition time? Take the domains you're receiving mail for out of your local-domains file, and put them into the relay-domains file so that the existing system acts as a backup MX and queues. > How did you move the mailboxes from the old system to the new one? root at newbox$ ssh root at oldbox tar -cf - /var/spool/mail |tar -xvf - > > I'm just hoping to glean some wisdom from the gnarly old mail server admins > on the list in order to head off as many problems as possible. Our existing > system is on life support and I'm afraid we don't have a lot of time to make > this switch. You should think about the *next* upgrade now, before switching to another broken system. -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list