Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:06:00 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Lotfi kecir <kecirlotfi@gmail.com> Subject: Re: migrate from postfix to qmail Message-ID: <20070924180600.GA89868@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <54db43990709240837jfa4c841x7eac3edcef01336f@mail.gmail.com> References: <48ce8d530709211747s615bc16by5766441066f19237@mail.gmail.com> <54db43990709240837jfa4c841x7eac3edcef01336f@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 11:37:53AM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: > On 9/21/07, Lotfi kecir <kecirlotfi@gmail.com> wrote: > > hello. i'm newbbie in Unix especially in in FreeBSD. Recently i have setup > > one mail server with postfix-dovecot and i would like to migrate it to Qmail > > server. but i didn't know how to do it. Someone can give help me? > > Thanks. > > The short answer should be that you just install the mail/qmail port. > The details of how to move the mailboxes to the new server depend on > what mailbox format you are using now. If they are Maildir format, > Qmail will be able to use them with no changes. If they are not > Maildir format, you will need to post that information. > > But please do not use Qmail -- it pollutes everyone else's mailbox > with blowback spam. There are patches to stop that. Look at the mail/qmail-spamcontrol port. It will install a patched version of qmail that can refuse to accept mail to non-existing addresses instead of bouncing them as qmail normally does. > If someone has convinced you that you want to use > Qmail, I strongly recommend that you consider Courier instead. It was > designed to be a drop-in replacement for Qmail, but does not have most > of the problems that Qmail has. The configuration files are very > similar to Qmail, so Qmail training should transfer to Courier pretty > readily. > > If you are putting this on the same server you now use for > postfix/dovecot, you will probably need to edit /etc/rc.conf to > disable your old mail program and enable the new one. E.g. if there is > a 'postfix_enable="YES"' statement, you may need to replace it with > something like 'courier_enable="YES"'. > > - Bob > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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