On Wednesday 27 Jul 2005 16:51, Jimmy Stewpot wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've done it a few times (sendmail to vpopmail, 30K+ users) with scripts > > etc to create the new users using the vpopmail tools, then again using > > scripts to get their Maildir directories from vpopmail and then moving > > the mail over. > > > > I've never just moved over an existing mail store directly, since of > > course, it doesn't create the hashes correctly. > > How do you extract the existing cdb database so that you can view it and > then I can easily script it. Im just having problems with the cdb passwd > file.
You might find what you want on http://cr.yp.to/cdb.html I just tried cat vpasswd.cdb | cdbdump > dump.txt dump.txt looks parseable to me. > > > There are a few different ways to do it depending on your backend, if > > you are using MySQL, then you can just update the mysql database with > > the user and password, leaving the maildir directory blank and it will > > automatically be updated when you pop into the account or sendmail to > > the account (really fast for creating 10K+ users). If you are using the > > cdb interface, then you will have to create the users using the vpopmail > > tools, which might take 5-15 minutes depending on the number of users, > > disk speeds, CPU etc. > > > > HTH, > > > > Rick -- ----------------- Bob Hutchinson Midwales dot com -----------------
