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Subject: Re: mail queue tarabiliy
From: Vivek Khera (kherakciLink.com)
Date: Mon Jun 12 2000 - 10:15:51 CDT


>>>>> "GC" == George Cox <gjvcsophos.com> writes:

GC> Is it possible to stop postfix on one machine, tar up the spool directory
GC> (/var/spool/postfix), and untar it on another machine (which has an empty
GC> queue), where processing can continue? UIDs are the same on both machines.

No. First shutdown postfix, move all queue files into incoming, then
move to the new machine, and start postfix there.

The file names other than in the incoming spool are based on the file
system inode number, which is not "portable".