On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Jeroen Geilman <jer...@adaptr.nl> wrote: > On 07/04/2010 01:38 AM, Asif Iqbal 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 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. > > > > It seems you managed to miss the postfix documentation. > http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html
Well, I was actually looking for specific document(s) that discusses qmail to postfix migration. Also, looking for something that covers the dot-qmail, seems like the hardest part to migrate over. > > It's so odd that people insist on NOT using the actual documentation. > > Is there any new feature(s) relevant to qmail to postfix migration, > that are not covered above and, were > introduced in newer postifx? > > > > I would not recommend following old, or unsupported, documentation. > Always use the latest official documentation, it includes the versions > something was introduced at. > > Also, if you followed any of those threads, is there some gotcha that > might be missing in there? > > > They're probably flagrantly wrong in about a dozen places. They always are. > > 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 would suggest the opposite. postfix is much more flexible than that old > crone. > However, you can do it in any way that suits you. > > (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 > > > Start with the URL Wietse gave you, it covers the basics. > > J. > > -- 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?
