Re: moving accounts/settings between post.office machines

[sue@xxxxxxxxx (Sue Chester)]

Hello Ben,
On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 10:44 AM, Ben Swihart wrote:

> Yes, this is very helpful.
>
> My only other question is about uninstalling post.office in case 
> something is not working.  I understand how to run the script that 
> uninstalls post.office, but does this procedure interfere with 
> sendmail?  As a reminder, I am running sendmail and qpopper with 
> netinfo user
> s as accounts.  If I install post.office on top of this scenario and 
> then uninstall post.office, will there be any problems?

You may have to change your /etc/hostconfig file to start the 
sendmail  service-you would make sure that your file says 
MAILSERVER=-YES- to  automatically start sendmail.

Here is the URL for uninstallation instructions (from our Post.Office  FAQ)

http://www.tenon.com/faq/ faq.php?display=faq&nr=4&catnr=2&prog=3.5.3&lang=en


Sue

> - Ben
>
> On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 01:37 PM, Sue Chester wrote:
>
> > Hi Ben,
> >
> > On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 10:26 AM, Ben Swihart wrote:
> >
> > > First of all, is this list archived somewhere that I can search it?
> >
> > http://postoffice.computeroil.com
> >
> >
> > > Platform: OSX Server 10.1.3
> > >
> > > I'd like to export all the users and settings from one Post.Office  machine
> > > and import them into another. Is this possible?  How?
> >
> > The general procedure is to install Post.Office fresh on the new 
> > machine, (stop the Post.Office service on both machines), "tar up" 
> > the /var/spool/post.office and /var/spool/mailbox directories from 
> > the old machine, move and "un tar" them on the new machine and then 
> > restart Post.Office on the new machine.  You'll need to make sure 
> > your MX records point to the new machine.    Here is the link to 
> > our  document that tells you the procedure:
> >
> > http://www.tenon.com/support/post_office/moving.shtml
> >
> > I hope this is helpful
> >
> > Sue
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > - Ben Swihart
> > > gotricities network
> > >
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