Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:19:51 CEST From: "Julien Clauzel" <jclauzel@hotmail.com> To: jfmays@launchpad.win.net, davew@sai.co.za, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: sendmail-questions@sendmail.org Subject: Re: Moving mail to another server for 700 accounts Message-ID: <F250kP3t9vXkVYeRvB100019fe3@hotmail.com>
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Hi,
What about the users password how do you manage to export them is there a
way to do that easyly?
Julien
>From: "Joe Mays" <jfmays@launchpad.win.net>
>To: "Dave Wilson" <davew@sai.co.za>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
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>Subject: Re: Moving mail to another server for 700 accounts
>Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 14:20:25 -0400
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>Not sure if I've missed something, but it looks to me like all you need is
>
>#/bin/sh
>for USERNAME in `cat listofusernames.txt`
> do
> formail -b -Y -f -s /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi $USERNAME@new.mail.server
><
>/var/mail/$USERNAME
> done
>exit
>
>where "listofusernames.txt" is a text file containing a list of all the
>usernames to be moved.
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dave Wilson" <davew@sai.co.za>
>To: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
>Cc: <sendmail-questions@sendmail.org>
>Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 2:22 PM
>Subject: Moving mail to another server for 700 accounts
>
>
> > Hi guys, howzit going ?
> >
> > I have been given the wonderful *not* job of moving 700 mail accounts to
>a
> > non-unix mail server.
> > I have a little script that Phillip(FreeBSD-ISP list *thanks*) helped me
>out
> > with that allows me to move each mail accounts data to a specified SMTP
> > server, the only problem is that I can only do it one account at a time
> > ....which would be a bit tiresome with 700 mail accounts
> > This is the script Phillip gave me which works perfectly for one user at
>a
> > time:
> >
> > formail -b -Y -f -s /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi $USERNAME@new.mail.server <
> > /var/mail/$USERNAME
> >
> > So what I would type is:
> > formail -b -Y -f -s /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi user1@new.mail.server <
> > /var/mail/user1
> >
> > The problem is that I would have to do this for each account ie. user1,
> > user2, user3 etc. all the way up to user700.
> >
> > Does anyone know how I can get all 700 accounts across in one go ?
> > I have tried various bash variables etc. to get this working but don't
>seem
> > to have any luck
> > Don't laugh, but this is one way I tried ;-) :
> >
> > # awk -F: '$3 > 100 { print $1}' /etc/passwd > /etc/mail/everyone
>#Gets
> > all users listed on /etc/mail/everyone
> > # ALLUSERS=`cat /etc/mail/everyone`
> > #Sets the variable for all my users
> > # formail -b -Y -f -s /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi $ALLUSERS@new.mail.server
><
> > /var/mail/$ALLUSERS #Tries to mail the whole lot off.
> >
> > Doing the above led to sendmail or bash or something complaing about an
> > "ambiguous redirect" ??
> >
> > I donno, I'm really lost and don't feel like spending 5 hours moving
>each
> > accounts' mail separately, please help if you can.... I would appreciate
>it
> > a hell of a lot.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Dave Wilson
> > The S.A. Internet
> > (033) 3456777
> > 0825496159
> > http://www.sai.co.za
> > "Who is "General Failure", and what is he doing reading my hard disk ?"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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