From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 24 12:46:58 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 194EE16A418 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:46:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ovi@unixservers.us) Received: from webserver.easyhosting.ro (unixware.iasi.rdsnet.ro [86.124.41.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A0913C45D for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:46:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ovi@unixservers.us) Received: from [10.0.0.14] (unknown [10.0.0.14]) (Authenticated sender: ovi@unixservers.us) by webserver.easyhosting.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34501FD03D; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:47:54 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <46F7B1E3.9000202@unixservers.us> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:47:31 +0300 From: Ovi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: DAve References: <48ce8d530709211747s615bc16by5766441066f19237@mail.gmail.com> <46F476E2.7080505@mikestammer.com> <48ce8d530709212129i3177480byd2ef4a66581b2f5b@mail.gmail.com> <46F7AF48.1090103@pixelhammer.com> In-Reply-To: <46F7AF48.1090103@pixelhammer.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: migrate from postfix to qmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:46:58 -0000 DAve wrote: > Lotfi kecir wrote: > >> HI, thank's for your post. >> to give answer to your answer: i rent a dedicated server (Fedora 6) >> witch >> has qmail installed on. and in my old Server witch is in our office >> turn has >> Postfix. >> The new sever has as Admin panel Plesk. >> I already create all email acounts and now i'm looking to transfert >> all my >> user acount mailboxes. >> and i don't have any idea to do it. >> Thanks for your help > > > First item, ignore the qmail haters. We run qmail quite successfully > and find it very powerful, very secure, and well designed. I will not > go into a point by point debate. > > Second item, plesk is a very bad way to run qmail. You will get *no* > help on the qmail list if you use the install on plesk. It is a > modified version of qmail and the modifications are closed door, at > least that is my understanding. So if you do not have an excellent > understanding of Unix, and above average understanding of email, and > good troubleshooting skills, you are in for a very rocky ride. > > By your description of the problem an experienced Unix administrator > would have no problem doing what you ask. Consider staying with > Postfix as you already know the software. If you insist on switching, > ask the Plesk developers for help. It is their software, their > install, they should be able to help you. > > DAve > > We had similar problem with Plesk and Qmail, crashing very often. We somehow fix that by stoping email antivirus from Plesk. Still crashes, but not so often. I've searched alot, it seems this is happening on Linux too (I've found posts regarding qmail crash on Slackware Linux). best regards, ovi