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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Migrating from SCO Unix to FreeBSD - What about the Email Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 07:36:06 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 28 Message-ID: <308A56D6.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <814020090.1914@kiss.demon.co.uk> <DGoHuu.KCD@nemesis.lonestar.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b1 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) Frank Durda IV wrote: > > [0]Phil Taylor (phil@zipmail.co.uk) wrote: > [0]Does anyone know of a way to automatically forward ALL mail from one > [0]server to another, including any mail sitting in the MMDF queue > [0]waiting to deliver via SMTP ? > > For the local mail, tar the /var/spool/mail (/usr/spool/mail on SCO) > and extract it on the new system. You will have to fix ownerships on > the files if your UIDs don't exactly match, but this fix-up can be automated > with a simple script. This is what we did. (The process also pointed-out > some user accounts we failed to re-create, since the chown failed.) > > As to the MMDF queue, we didn't have one (smail site), but we did have > smail deferred SMTP queues. We also used tar and simply put the files back > in the appropriate queue on the remote system. > > If that won't work for you, drain the queue by blocking incoming mail > I do miss the multi-port boards that have no drivers under any of the > BSDs (or Linux), and that was one big negative. We had to do a lot > of kludging to make up for the lost serial ports. Which ones? There are certainly a growing number of supported multiserial cards in FreeBSD (Cyclades, Digiboard, ARCOM, Specialix, etc) and I find myself wondering if we've left any really important ones out! -- Jordan