Re: rereolling postfix

2009-09-14 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* LuKreme : > On 13-Sep-2009, at 23:43, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: > >> When you move from Cyrus to something else you can't use a file to >> file copy >> mechanism, since the Cyrus mailbox format is non-standard. > > I am not moving from Cyrus to something else. I have Cyrus SASL > installed f

Re: rereolling postfix

2009-09-14 Thread LuKreme
On 14-Sep-2009, at 07:48, LuKreme wrote: against the myself database The travails of autocorrecting spelling errors. The mysql database. -- No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

Re: rereolling postfix

2009-09-14 Thread LuKreme
On 13-Sep-2009, at 23:43, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: When you move from Cyrus to something else you can't use a file to file copy mechanism, since the Cyrus mailbox format is non-standard. I am not moving from Cyrus to something else. I have Cyrus SASL installed for authentication against

Re: rereolling postfix

2009-09-14 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* Stéphane MERLE : > Patrick Ben Koetter a écrit : >> * LuKreme : >> >>> I am planning on recompiling postfix and all its various helper apps >>> (switching from cyrus to dovecot, upgrading mysql, Maybe setting up >>> LDAP, and doing a clean install of FreeBSD latest) onto a newer, and >>> hope

Re: rereolling postfix

2009-09-13 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* LuKreme : > I am planning on recompiling postfix and all its various helper apps > (switching from cyrus to dovecot, upgrading mysql, Maybe setting up > LDAP, and doing a clean install of FreeBSD latest) onto a newer, and > hopefully more capable machine. > > What I want to do is get the new sy

Re: rereolling postfix

2009-09-13 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, LuKreme wrote: > >Depending on how many users you have to move, just select a bunch and > >spool mail for them on the current Postfix box while you rsync their > >IMAP mailboxes to the new box. > > Probably not enough users to make that necessary, but that might be a > way to

Re: rereolling postfix

2009-09-13 Thread LuKreme
On 13-Sep-2009, at 18:27, Sahil Tandon wrote: On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, LuKreme wrote: My question is what is the best way to actually migrate the mail and the users to the new machine without losing mail? WOuld it be a good idea (or even possible) to run the two machines in parallel for a time, havi

Re: rereolling postfix

2009-09-13 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, LuKreme wrote: > I am planning on recompiling postfix and all its various helper apps > (switching from cyrus to dovecot, upgrading mysql, Maybe setting up > LDAP, and doing a clean install of FreeBSD latest) onto a newer, and > hopefully more capable machine. > > What I wan