On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 16:28, Jan-Frode Myklebust <janfr...@tanso.net>wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 02:01:44PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > > What do you mean by a "new domain" in this context? > > The user's email addresses are changing from username@old.domain to > username@new-domain. > That can be handled by address rewrites within the MTA. > > > Is the server changing? > > No. > > > Is the storage changing? > > The user's home directory is based on the user's email address, so this is > changing. > In my setup, I have virtual users. So the home directory is in the /var/spool/virtual/$domain/$user/mdbox How is yours setup? If the domain name changed, from domain1 to domain2, I believe it would be easy to change as follows: cd /var/spool/virtual/ mv $domain1 $domain2 Well, it the size of $domain1 is in TBs, I'd probably do it another way as doing mv is a bit dangerous with very large datasets: cd /var/spool/virtual mkdir domain2 cd domain1 for d in `ls -1`; do mv $d domain2/$d; done [ or something closer] > > In my thinking, a domain change is as simple as using a rewrite rule in > > your MTA. > > Also the user's login-names needs to change from old to new domain, and > all their data needs to move from old to new domain. > > And the login names are stored in a flatfile or db?? Either way, you can do a rename. Dump the database and just use vi to rename old-domain to new-domain, then drop the db and import the dump. mysqldump dbname dbname.sql vi dbname.sql :g/old-domain/s//new-domain/g mysqladmin drop dbname mysqladmin create dbname mysql dbname < dbname.sql You can also edit the flatfile to s/old-domain/new-domain/g cat flatfile | xargs sed -i.BAK 's/old-domain/new-domain/g' Maybe I still don't understand you:-) -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. Please consider the environment before printing this email.
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