Re: migrate from group alias to mailing list

You should be able to pause mail delivery safely and easily by setting
the "alias" directory.  See "SAFEQMAIL EDITING" here:
http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/dot-qmail.html (or ideally in the
dot-qmail man page on your own system).

qmail will temporarily defer messages while the sticky bit is set on the
user's (in this case alias) home directory.

I don't remember when I ran into this, but it stuck in my mind because
it's not intuitive.
 
 - Amy

Asif Iqbal wrote:
> I have a group alias like this
>
> (alias)@qmail:~$ cat ~alias/.qmail-mygroup
> [email protected]
> [email protected]
>
> I like to convert it to mailing list
>
> (alias)@qmail:~$ mv .qmail-mygroup .qmail-mygroup.expired
> (alias)@qmail:~$ ezmlm-make -gsrl -5 [email protected]
> /maildisk/example.net/mygroup  ~/.qmail-mygroup mygroup example.net
> (alias)@qmail:~$ ezmlm-sub /maildisk/example.net/mygroup
> [email protected] [email protected]
> (alias)@qmail:~$ ezmlm-sub /maildisk/example.net/mygroup/mod
> [email protected]
>
> How do I pause all emails coming to [email protected] while doing
> this migration?
>