Hi Scott, On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, Scott St. John wrote:
> Is it possible to move current mail to the maildir format? I inconvenienced > the clients once with the crash and now that things are not running as smooth > I don't want to run the risk of long amounts of downtime. I really want to go > Postfix because I think it is more efficient, more secure, more reliable > and less > of a resource pig. Qpopper also has a habit of just stopping, I have have to > reload xinetd several times a day. You can convert the mboxes with mbox2maildir. Changing from Sendmail to Postfix shouldn't bei a hassle and if properly prepared shouldn't produce a long downtime. Depending on the amount and size of your mboxes the conversion takes some time, but your machine should be fast enough ;-) to do this in a reasonable time. > > > >Regarding a switch to debian. Three years ago we started switching our > >servers from Suse to Debian. I've never regretted that switch since > >maintaining Debian is so much easier than Suse due to apt. > > Had a Debian box ready to go, but when the machine crashed I had to get > something up right then and now so I went with RH because I could do it > in under 30 minutes, plus I had the Sendmail configs. I ended up using > Suse as well for Cistron Radius. I only have 3 of these boxes - Mandrake > for the web server, RH for the mail and Suse sits there and does Radius. > I have been planning on moving people off the Mandrake box so I might > move them to the Suse box since it only does Radius, turn the Mandrake > box into Debian and be happy :) > Hmm - maintaining such a distribution zoo sounds like a headache. Switch all the boxes to debian, install a local apt-proxy and enjoy applying security patches to all your machines in minutes ;-) Regards Torsten Krueger -- Media Online Internet Services & Marketing GmbH Torsten Krueger [EMAIL PROTECTED] fon: 49-231-5575100 fax: 49-231-55751098 Ruhrallee 39 D-44137 Dortmund -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
