Re: [SLUG] Sendmail Transfer between systems

[Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst@nospam.barrett.com.au>]

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 05:04:29PM -0700, Jeremy Kerwin (jkerwinj@nospam.netscape.net) wrote:
> I have a question for all those sendmail gurus out there.
> 
> One of my customers currently has a Motorola Box running UNIX with Sendmail
> 8.x...They are upgrading the box to s Sun Enterprise 450 with sendmail 8.x an
> I would like to know how to get the mailboxes and configuration files from the
> motorola to the Sun..
> 
> If anyone has any idea that would be fantastic or even if you could point me
> in the right direction that would be great...

I would suggest to go to the next sendmail (8.10.X based). The new version
has (finally!) a better directory tree (all resides in /etc/mail) and has
some enhanced security features, and a queue dir with subdirs.
I suggest you setup the new box, ftp the config files across and setup sendmail
(incluing the new dir structure) and then setup the user structure on the
new box.

Once that is done shutdown sendmail on the old box, ftp the content of the 
user mail directory accross, point the MX record to the new machine and
start sendmail on the new box. done!

jobst




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