On 8/5/2009 10:08 PM, Fred Zinsli wrote: > Hi Everyone > > Have been googling most of the day and can't find a solution to my problem. > You're likely not going to find a turnkey, one-step solution complete with step-by-steps. It is too complicated a beast. > I have just setup a linux based email server using SM. > I am moving from Mdaemon after a considerable number of years of use. > > I don't have many users (<1000) but I do have in exceese of 1 Million > messages I want to migrate across to the new system. > > Not being all that technical I'm not entirely sure where to start to be > quite honest. Start slowly, building one step at at time. Better yet, if you care about your users, hire/find someone who can build/manage this for you. > > If someone has had some experience with this I would really appreciate > some guidence with getting the existing messages and users migrated across > to the new system. Migrating the data out is the trivial part, and somewhat depends on how you have mdaemon configured. Exporting users lists is easy; mail messages can be transferred using tools such as imapcopy (see; http://home.arcor.de/armin.diehl/imapcopy/imapcopy.html) Start by reading this thread once, and then again: http://www.irbs.net/internet/postfix/0509/1381.html This reply from the thread provides an overview of the order in which to tackle the pieces: http://www.irbs.net/internet/postfix/0509/1806.html Next, get The Book of Postfix. This will give you some background and guidance in walking through building your system. It is a system you are building, and as such, takes time to verify the components along the way. The last thing you want to do is to flip the switch, only to find that your 1000 users are dialing your number. > > The mail setup I have used can be found here. > http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-domains-postfix-courier-mysql-squirrelmail-debian-lenny > All the components here are plenty sufficient... and they require care and maintenance. That too has to be considered. Finally, this is not really too relevant (yet) to the SM list, as SM is one of the final components you need to configure. Configuring a reliable mail transport system and mail storage comes first. The configuration of the web mail client comes last. -- Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
