[Dovecot] Need a little shadow to MySQL conversion help

[Andreas Ntaflos]

On Tuesday 20 October 2009 18:57:48 Marc Perkel wrote:
> Thank you all for your help on this. I'll probably try it tonight
> when most people will be off line and hopefully it won't be down
> long. Everything already is lower case so that shouldn't be an issue.

Another suggestion, a little off-topic and probably not quite original: 
you should really try to use a test server for experimenting, at least 
if you do any non-trivial hosting or can tell your users to go to hell 
when they complain :) Nothing makes your life more miserable than a 
screwed up mail system you cannot easily recover. 

The test server can even be a small virtual machine as long as it sports 
the same software infrastructure (Dovecot, Postfix, MySQL, Apache and 
whatever else) as the production system. Using a test system goes a 
long way in ensuring that you don't run into nasty surprises and only 
changes you tested and of which you know the consequences are applied 
to the production instance.

Andreas
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Andreas Ntaflos
Vienna, Austria

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