Re: [qmailadmin-devel] alias2forward.pl, other notes on upgrading

[Bill S. <hos...@sh...>]

On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 12:30  PM, Tom Collins wrote:

> I have 'alias2forward.pl' working (80 lines), and just need to add a 
> few prompts to it (prompt for qmail path if it isn't /var/qmail, 
> prompt for whether it should do a dry-run and show what will happen, 
> or just go for it).
>
> It turned out to be a little tricky, because it has to work with 
> hashed domains (e.g., ~vpopmail/domains/0/test.com).  It ignores alias 
> domains where it's already processed the "real domain".  I also 
> included code to ignore symbolic links (ezmlm files).  It could 
> probably be done with a shell script, but I lack the mad shell skillz 
> to do it.
>
> It only rewrites the file if it made changes.  It only changes lines 
> that start with /, and end with /Maildir (with an optional trailing 
> /).  I ran into some files on my system (ezmlm list owner aliases) 
> that didn't have the trailing slash, and worried that there might be 
> some other instances where it's missing, so I made it optional.
>
> Since it overwrites the old file with the new information (again, only 
> if there were changes), the permissions remain unchanged.  I'll put it 
> online, or post it to the list for others to test on development 
> servers, and it will be included with the 1.0.25 release, along with 
> notes in the CHANGELOG, README and UPGRADING files.
>
> If anyone wants to take the plunge and start writing a document that 
> will help vpopmail 5.2.1/qmailadmin 1.0.6 admins upgrade to the 
> vpopmail 5.4/qmailadmin 1.2 release, I'd appreciate it.  You would 
> have to review the Changelogs, summarize architectural changes that 
> would affect them, and introduce some of the new features (like 
> valiases, the new vlimits code, current state of SpamAssassin 
> integration, new configure options, etc.).

I might have time to start on this later this weekend.

Bill