Re: migrate from group alias to mailing list

Asif Iqbal <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Easiest way is to stop qmail-smtmd (to prevent messages arriving) or stop
> > qmail-send (to prevent messages already in the queue from being delivered)
> > or both.  Then do your changeover and restart the service(s).
[...]
> > If you don't want to stop services, you can create the mailing list then
> > simply replace this .qmail file atomically, which will accomplish the same
> > thing.

Note the latter isn't really appropriate if you're trying to replace an
existing alias with an ezmlm list.

> That does make sense. So lets try little different approach.
[...]
> So now I have to rename them to .qmail-newtest-*

I don't think ezmlm will be happy if you create the list at one address and
then simply try to rename it into place; I haven't looked at the code in
years, but I'm certain ezmlm stores the address as part of the list
configuration, and it won't like it if you rename the .qmail files for the
list, as it then won't match what's configured.

Charles
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