Hello gurus,
It's me again. This time I'd like to change as in $subject. With over 6k users
on a production system, has anyone gone through such an experience? I'd like
to share with you what you went through.
I see a very difficult situation here where
1. I'll drop the (production) server to single user mode
2. Change exim local delivery transport to deliver to Maildir
3. Change the config for the POP3 daemon
3. Test 3 or so accounts
4. Return to server mode
At that point, I am left with so much mail in /var/mail/{user} which I have to
get to each user's Maildir/new and there are over 6k users!! A bit scaring for
a junior like me ;-) - I could do something like
#!/bin/sh
SPOOL=/var/mail
MBOX=`ls -1`
cd $SPOOL
for mailbox in $MBOX
do
tmpbox=/tmp/$mailbox
mv $mailbox $tmpbox
owner=`ls -l $tmpbox | awk '{print $3}'`
touch $mailbox
chown $owner $mailbox
chmod 600 $mailbox
formail -s exim $owner@??? < $tmpbox
# rm $tmpbox
mv $tmpbox /var/Oldmailboxes
done
Just seeking ideas and will highly appreciate all input (-/+)
MTIA
-Wash
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