Migration from Qmail to Postfix...

[Scott D.]

Using the Plesk's migration manager, should I be able to migrate all accounts (including domains AND email) from a Fedora 7 / Qmail setup to an Ubuntu 8.04 / Postfix setup? My greatest concern is the email since they are completely different platforms. Both are running Plesk 9.5.

Thanks for all of your help!

Scott

 

[IgorG]

Mailnames structure (/var/qmail/mailnames/) is equal for both MTAs on Plesk. Therefore you can safely migrate mailboxes from one MTA to other.

 

[Scott D.]

Thanks Igor. I really appreciate the response. And you made my day!

S.

 

[chris@virtbiz]

A word of warning: You may run into troubles because of cross-platform. But generally, the migration from a Qmail machine to a Postfix machine is fairly painless. It's when you try to convert an existing Qmail system to Postfix that you will run into some trouble.

 

[linearstrategy]

how easy is it going back to qmail. I am having nothing but problems with postfix

 

[chris@virtbiz]

I'm not sure, because as soon as I could get away from Qmail, I did. It's a fine MTA, but I just don't like its logging, and being familiar with Sendmail & Postfix, it was a natural choice. What kinds of troubles are you having with the Postfix? Maybe somebody could help you with that.

 

[IgorG]

how easy is it going back to qmail. I am having nothing but problems with postfix

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