Update mail entries in Directory server 5.2

Question

Hi All,
we have a request of updating mail addresses.. that to only after @. our server have around 650000 entries.
One solution we are thinking of is exporting the database... changing the entries and importing again
Can any one help me with any simple solution for this? or any script?
Thanks
Sridhar

Answer 1

Assuming you take the approach of exporting and importing and you are changing all mail entries to the same new domain name and you are using the standard "mail" attribute you could do the following:
Export your data to LDIF. Say for example you call the LDIF file "old.ldif". Then run the following sed command:
sed 's/^mail:\ \(.*\)@\(.*\)/mail:\ \[email protected]/g' old.ldif > new.ldifThe "new.ldif" file will have all the email addresses with "@newdomain.com" in them. You could then import new.ldif.
As etst123 mentioned if you are in a replicated environment you may then have to re-initialize your consumers after your import even if your initial export included replica information.
One other thing. If you have static mail groups with users that have the old domain you will need to modify those as well.