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Sendmail migration
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 3:22 pm
by leiw
Hi ,
My company has a Sendmail, I planning to do migration from Sendmail to Scalix,
any information about this situation?
Thanks
I have the same questions
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:22 pm
by gordontin
Dear leiw
I have been thinking of migrating 200 users from sendmail to scalix.
Set up new account is easy but you will have to distribute all users and contact all users to re-issue new passwords for such a migration.
In linux /etc/password
All password are one way hashed. You can't retrieve the real password.
Sendmail to scalix mail migration is not possible.
The mail format is not the same. The only solution is use imapsync to migrate mailbox.
IF ANYONE HAS ANY SOLUTION TO THIS, PLEASE OPEN FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION.
With Best Regards
Gordon
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:58 am
by leiw
Ok, If anyone have solution please post here .
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 6:04 am
by florian
well, you could leave your unix accounts intact and authenticate (using pam_unix) against your /etc/passwd. that would preserve the passwords, however leave all the accounts as Linux accounts, which, from a security standpoint is not as good as managing them in Scalix or LDAP.
On the migration, imapsync is certainly the way to go for flat unix mailboxes and as this is proven to work fine, i'd call it a solution.
Cheers,
Florian.