Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 08:27:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Phillip Salzman <phill@freebsd.org> To: Dave Wilson <davew@sai.co.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, sendmail-questions@sendmail.org Subject: Re: Redelivering delivered mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008250826110.31666-100000@vyrus.net> In-Reply-To: <006501c00ea3$6d8b7cd0$112821c4@sai.co.za>
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If you're going to another UNIX (or sendmail) system, simply use a tool like scp, rsync, or even ftp, to move the files. What type of system are you moving too? If it's one that does Maildir format, I have a script (somewhere) that will convert your var/mail/$USER file into Maildir (for something like qmail), but will have to locate it... I haven't used it in a long time. --- Phillip Salzman phill@freebsd.org On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Dave Wilson wrote: > Hi guys, howzit going ? > > We are in the process of moving all our mail accounts (800 accounts) off a > FreeBSD4.0 box to a new mailserver. > Is there a way to redeliver the mail that has already been written to > /var/mail/$user ? > In other words user@mydomain.com has all his mail waiting in /var/mail/user > to be collected, now what we want to do is change the MX for mydomain.com > and point it to the new mail server and somehow forward all his mail from > /var/mail/user to the new mail server ? > Obviously we could log in as each user, retrieve his/her mail and then > forward it but that would be a bit heavy for 800 accounts ;-) > > Any ideas ? > > Regards > Dave Wilson > The S.A. Internet > (033) 3456777 > 0825496159 > http://www.sai.co.za > "Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard drive ?" > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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