I am setting up a replacement mail server to stand in for a few days
while I upgrade our production server. I have copied the group, passwd,
and shadow files over to the new machine. Do i need to copy anything
else over? We use ipop3 to collect our mail. Do i need to make sure each
user has a file in /var/spool/mail or will the system see to that when
they get mail sent to them? Also, I did not create home directories for
the users. Some users had them, and some did not. they were not
accessible by the users at all. I just want to make sure i have this
down so the transition goes relatively smoothly.
as far as the /var/spool/mail/user files are concerned, they will get created when mail comes in.
I think that ipop3 just reads straight from the /var/spool/mail/user file and no home directory is needed,
but you might get lots of errors if the local mail delivery agent tries to look for ~/.forward or ~/.procmail
To know for sure, try sending a message to this standin box for your own account and test it...
If it works for your user account then it will probably work for everybody elses. The only differences
for POP and SMTP are the user names and passwords....
-Ben.
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