On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Asif Iqbal <vad...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All > > I am planning to migrate from qmail to postfix. > > Currently our qmail uses QMAILQUEUE, qmail-scanner, clamd, > spamassassin, rbldnsd, greylite, qmail-pop, qmail-ldap, virtuals and > ezmlm. > (I hope I did not miss anything)
I am pretty sure dovecot is the popular method of pop3 and will be recommended tool to replace qmail-pop Also I probably will need to use `recipient_delimiter = - ' for as one of the key steps to make dot-qmail work same Again, I have not used postfix as a SMTP server and looking for all the goodies that you can suggest :-). I used postfix only as client for my ubuntu laptop and used gmail account to smtp through. (kind a off-topic) > > I found few suggestions from the following articles > > http://www.irbs.net/internet/postfix/0207/1241.html [yr 2002] > http://www.irbs.net/internet/postfix/0401/1049.html [yr 2004] > http://johnleach.co.uk/documents/qmail-to-postfix/index.html [yr 2006] > > They are pretty old. > > Is there any new feature(s) relevant to qmail to postfix migration, > that are not covered above and, were > introduced in newer postifx? > > Also, if you followed any of those threads, is there some gotcha that > might be missing in there? > > I am guessing I need to install postfix as the front-end, will be > installed on a separate new box. > Then use the qmail, currently running on the existing system, as the back-end. > Hoping that will ease the migration, however not exactly sure how to > do it, quite yet :-). > (I have to go back read those threads/articles again.) > Then eventually expire qmail. Not quite sure how to do that either, > but I think have to do some > MX tricks on that. > > Anyways, I am looking for comments/suggestions. > > Thanks > > > > -- > Asif Iqbal > PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
