[wplug] Mailman and Postfix

[Tom Rhodes]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:18:05 -0500
"Michael Semcheski" <mhsemcheski at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> As many of you are aware, we're trying to move the WPLUG online
> resources onto a new server.  We've hit a bit of a snag.
> 
> I consider the wplug at wplug.org mailing list to be crucial to the
> group.  And there are other mailing lists that are very important as
> well.  It would be really nice to scratch this off of the todo list.
> I don't have the time right now to learn mailman and postfix from
> scratch.
> 
> So, this is a public plea for help to anyone who knows postfix and /
> or knows mailman.  We need your help.
> 
> Questions include (but certainly are not limited to):
> How do we move the mailing lists and archives off of penguin.wplug.org
> to linode.wplug.org?
> When do we change the DNS records and how do we coordinate that with
> moving the lists?
> How do we make sure we get everything moved over?

ssh -p 22 user at server tar cvzf - /var/mail | dd of=mail.tar.gz bs=1024

Repeat for other files.

Note what I'm saying - many times I've just moved configuration
files over without a problem.  Occasionally you'll get stuck with
some permissions stuff but log files help there.  :)

-- 
Tom Rhodes