Qmail Upgrade

[Alin-Adrian Anton]

Duane Stark wrote:

>Quick question:
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>I am replacing a server with a new one.  Freebsd versions are different (old 4.6 STABLE, new 4.8) and qmail / vpopmail versions are most likely different (havent updated qmail since I built the server over a year ago.
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>Is there any easy way to do this? Does anyone have the location of a website with good instructions?  I've googled myself to death! :)
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>Many thanks,
>Duane
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I don't know if there is a newer version of qmail out there, but what I 
can tell you, the way I consider to be the smoothest one for upgrading 
any port is like this:

portupgrade --use-packages qmail

You can find the portupgrade tool in the ports collection. See it's man 
pages for details.

Alin.