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Anonymous
02-24-2005, 02:17 PM
If this topic doesn't belong here, moderators please move it to the appropriate thread or delete it.

I have about 200 users on a linux box (authenticated via passwd/shadow), each one having his own home directory in /home/$USER

If some of them use IMAP or have folders on server, they are located in /home/$USER/Sent, Trash,Personal...etc.
E-mail comes (INBOX) is stored is in /var/spool/mail. Btw, Im using qmail and trying to implement what i've seen on qmailrocks.org, which is a well documented tutorial.

Any idea on how to convert those users from linux/unix style passwd/shadow to a mysql database user? And how could each user stil keep his/her OLD folders/email messages?
Thank you very much for your help

Rhun Draco
03-18-2005, 11:52 PM
Make sure to look at qmail.org and lifewithqmail.org. There might be more information on those sites.