No DNS Test server? mailbox migration?

[timothyalangorman]

I'm currently running a canned (sendmail / dovecot imap) Redhat es 4 server with 100 email client users.

1. I want to test this software but I do not run dns internally. Can I install scalix wothout DNS resoloution for testing.
I can't simply dump my current email app without testing this new one and poroposing it to my CFO / CIO.

2 How does one migrate mailboxed from their user /home/XXX/mail folders?
/var/spool?

thanks
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[timothyalangorman]

Anyone have and answer to this?
can I setup a test server without networking or at leas without dns?
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[timothyalangorman]

ok I set up some cheesy free dns dealy for the test server...
nslookup returns the correct outside IP.
my test server is going through one to one NAT...
as all 4 of my sendmail systems I maintain do.
scalix fails to return the final ip as resolveable.
any way to get around this?
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[florian]

Scalix can be setup to be run without DNS successfully, it's just more complex, so we don't usually recommend it.

You'll need to setup your IP and fully qualified hostname in /etc/hosts; various other posts on the forum refer to the subject.

Sendmail will need to use a smarthost for outbound mail (because now it cannot resolve MX records for recipient domains) and it will need to have a ServiceSwitch file to be setup to stop it from trying to access DNS. Please google for sendmail, nodns to find a few more pointers to do so.

There is nothing really Scalix-specific in the sendmail setup, so whatever works on your other sendmail boxes should also work on the Scalix system.

-- f.