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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!kiss.demon.co.uk From: phil@zipmail.co.uk (Phil Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Migrating from SCO Unix to FreeBSD - What about the Email Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 12:40:22 GMT Organization: Lan Systems Lines: 27 Message-ID: <814020090.1914@kiss.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: phil@zipmail.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: kiss.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: kiss.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 We are FINALLY migrating one of our customers who is an ISP from their SCO Unix system to FreeBSD 2.0.5R. One point that has occurred to us is what to do with any customers eMails that are sitting on the machine. Most of their subscribers use POP3 but some use SMTP and although we could manually forward their POP mailboxes to the new machine when we take the old one offline this would be quite a job (a lot of files). Does anyone know of a way to automatically forward ALL mail from one server to another, including any mail sitting in the MMDF queue waiting to deliver via SMTP ? Otherwise this could cause a real problem with the migration as I don't think that they would be happy about losing all of the emails. I suppose at worst I could run the two concurrently, I think that MMDF can re-route mail dynamically but I haven't found out yet. Cheers Phil