Guys, I have a question concerning sendmail to qmail migration which I hope you can help me out with. I have one host which is running sendmail. All mail is delivered to that machine, and then to each users mail spool, each of which sits in a common directory. For example : /bigdisk/mailboxes/rich /bigdisk/mailboxes/phil etc, etc. These are in the "standard" sendmail format (i.e. a big file). My new host, which is running a version of qmail (1.03), will again have a central mailspool area, but this time, delivery will be (you guessed it) to individual Maildirs. The problem I have is that customers mailboxes must be preserved somehow, so have to be ported over (again, somehow). Is there any simple way to get the existing mailboxes from the sendmail machine over to the qmail machine, and put them in the customers Maildirs ?? Previously I have looked at downloading the old mail to the new system via POP3 with the customer logs in on the new machine, though it is too slow (as on the old machine we still have to do a POP3 login and passwordchecking via /etc/passwd). Currently the favourite idea will be to tar up the files onto tape, move them physically to the new machine, and then run a script which ports them into Maildirs. I have looked through the FAQ on this already but maybe I've missed something somewhere. As an aside, I have a 5 meg password file, on the old machine. If I do any operation on it, its slow. Would it speed things up if I just removed redundant information (eg comment info, which isn't used for anything) ??. This is a quick fix for our old machine, as its near breaking point. Thanks for any help you can give me. Regards, Richard Aldridge, Internet Systems Engineer, Cable Internet.
