Email Migration
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Add on New Server
Vpopmail
This add virtual domains and users to the email server.
- Add domain
vadddomain domain.com postmaster_password
- Add users
vadduser user@domain.com user_password
Qmailadmin
- Login from GoGoat
- Set aliases using New Forward
Majordomo to Ezmlm
- Login from GoGoat
- Click New Mailing List
- or Mailing Lists (to manage already created lists)
- Enter the required information in the form
- Now time to move subscriber lists.
- Seems to be problems with ezmlm.cgi
- Attempt from command line
- Some shell commands for ezmlm
ezmlm-sub /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/dom_name/list_name user@address # Subscribe ezmlm-unsub /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/dom_name/list_name user@address # Unsubscribe ezmlm-list /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/dom_name/list_name # List subscribers
- Create shell script that read address from file and processes them through the subscribe command.
- Initially process this in a text editor. Since I have less than 1000 total subscribers, decided not to write script. Maybe later.
Update Subscription Forms on Website
Web subscription forms currently send requests to majordomo@domain.com. Then the command is included in the body of the message. This needs to be changed to send an email to listname-subscribe-user=usersdomain.com@domain.com or listname-unsubscribe-user=usersdomain.com@domain.com
Original code snippet
$mailto="majordomo@domain.org";
switch ($maillist){
case "advocacy":
$word = "*****";
break;
case "meetings":
$word = ""*****";
break;
}
mail($mailto, $subject,
"
approve $word $action $maillist $email
end
-Automated message
");
New code snippet
$repemail= str_replace("@", "=", $email);
$mailto=$maillist ."-". $action ."-". $repemail ."@domain.org";
mail($mailto, $subject, "");
Adjust Sendmail on Original Server
Virtual Users Table
The original server uses Sendmail with virtusertable. Manually delete the moved domains from this file to prevent erroneous email delivery.
cd /etc/mail makemap hash virtusertable < virtusertable
Local Host Names
Sendmail uses the file /etc/mail/local-host-names to determine other doamins it may accept mail from. Manually delete all migrated domains from this file
References
- Majordomo
- ezmlm-idx
- Sendmail Configuration on Linux: local-host-names
--Gary 15:38, 11 Aug 2005 (CDT)
