Well anyways once I've copied everything Qmail looked fined except I had a couple of permission issues and had to clean up and fix the queue with qfixq, I've also used qmail-scanner*/contrib/test_installation.sh script to test whether qmail-scanner was running fine, e.g.: I've also copied all the old binaries from /usr/local/lib from server1 to server2, some others from /usr/local/share and /usr/share as well as /usr/lib/courier /usr/lib/courier-authlib /usr/local/libexec /usr/local/sbin also had to link a couple of libraries such as /usr/lib/libcrypto*, link /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.10 to /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.14 and copy /usr/lib/libltdl.so.3 and few others which i don't exactly remember.
I've also installed with apt-get daemontools and daemontools-run ucspi and some others to get all the necessery binaries qmail needs the whole list of apt installed packages is here The overall migration of binaries went quite OK I just copied every binary and all the related libraries from the old Debian 5.0 to Debian 7.0 and installed the following long list of perl deb binaries using apt-get: After all most of Qmail is secure enough already 🙂Īnd to be honest I don't so much care about security as in the old days as I know NSA, does already have access to any server on planet 🙂Īlmost always when a Qmail migration happens I end up swearing and sweating and generally getting crazy, but anyways … Plus I honestly love qmail for being so stable even today (even without support).
Yes I know many would say why do you still bother with an old and unsupported Qmail Mail server and not go with Postfix, the logic is correct however the whole issue is the previous installation has a number of domains already running VirtualMail hosting using VPopMail, so migrating all the old mailboxes from Qmail to Postfix are not worthy IMHO.
The whole migration exercise was quite of a crazy move and I can tell you it didn't worth the effort as I lost much more time than even if I went on installing the server following Thibs Great Qmail Tutorial. I've lost a whole day and was angry and irritated after moving (migrating) a Working Qmail installation in a binary form from a Debian Lenny 5.0 to a Debian 7.0 Wheezy Linux.
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