[KLUG Members] moving mailserver

[Adam Bultman]

> > What would be the least painful way to move a mail server (existing mail) to
> > new server.
> > 
I just moved my mailserver, woo!


Here's what I did, in a nutshell.

Set up another machine with the newest and greatest stuff.  Install 
programs of choice, and set it up to be IDENTICAL to the old one.  Use it 
as a mail server and send mail to some test users in multiple hosted 
domains. If things work, yay. Be sure to test aliases, etc.  

I scped over /var/spool/mail and /home.  Did a quick bash script to fix 
permissions, and that was it.  

I had a few user-related problems (slack 8.1 doesn't like user.name, 
whereas turbolinux didn't mind, which caused aliasing issues) but apart 
from that, it went very smoothly. It was quite painless indeed.

Adam