topic Re: Sendmail in Operating System - Linux

Sendmail

manny_9 — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 06:37:20 GMT

Hello to everyone!!!

I need to move all email accounts to a new email server. What is the best way? It seems like I had come across a script for this before, but darned if I can find it.

Old email box---redhat 7.2/sendmail
new ----redhat 9.0 es /postfix.

Thanks

Re: Sendmail

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:32:41 GMT

All you need to do is transfer the user information.

You can if there are no conflicts copy the users from /etc/passwd and reset their passwords on the new box.

You may need some of the configuration information from /etc/mail/ directory, depending on what features you want to use.

what i do is thus:

cp /etc/passwd /root/newpass

vi newpass

remove all but the users to be transferred.

ftp the file to the new box.

cp /etc/passwd /root # back it up

cat newpass >> /etc/passwd

SEP

Re: Sendmail

Martin P.J. Zinser — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:36:35 GMT

And, depending on your users, you also might want to backup the actual content of their mailboxes to the new server ;-)