Alberto Rodríguez wrote:
>
> I have some email users in /etc/passwd and now I´d like move them to
> vpopmail.
>
> We could suppose that my domain is domain.org. domain.org is my
> defaultdomain too, so it´s on /var/qmail/control/defaultdomain.
No, qmailds defaultdomain file and vpopmails "default domain" concept
are different.
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> So I think that following steps are necesary:
0. Stop qmail
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> First. I make a domain named false.domain.org.
1. ~vpopmail/bin/vadddomain domain.org postmaster-password
>
> Second. With a script I make all users who are in /etc/passwd under
> /home/vpopmail/domains/false.domain.org.
2. ~vpopmail/bin/vconvert domain.org
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> Three. I copy all their messages which are in /home/user/Maildir to
> /home/vpopmail/domains/false.domain.org/user/Maildir.
cp /home/user/Maildir/new/*
/home/vpopmail/domains/domain.org/user/Maildir/new
This will work if you have less than 100 users.
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> Four. with vaddaliasdomain I make an alias domain to false.domain.org.
No, don't confuse everyone with a temporary aliased domain.
Just stop qmail and and the domain name you really want,
then run vconvert. vconvert will create pop accounts from /etc/passwd
non root users into the domain you specify. Then it sets all thier
passwords to match the /etc/passwd password. A pretty nifty trick
considering /etc/passwd has only the encrypted password ;]
>
> Please, could anyone say if it´s all ok?
Try my way, it's worked plenty of times for me before.
And for the bonus points try this kids:
1) Modify vconvert.c so when it converts a user in /etc/passwd it
also searches for a Maildir directory in thier home directory
and copies over the mail files with the correct permissions.
2) extra bonus
If a Maildir file doesn't exist, go look in /var/spool/mail/user
for a Mailbox file and convert it into Maildir files.
Cheers
Ken Jones
>
> Thanks in advance.
