In addition to Bud's TTL suggestion, if you want to ensure zero interruption of service, you could have your customers create a second account to pull mail off of both servers, but in general a short TTL (say 15-60 minutes) and store and forward to the new server will work fine.
Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dean Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 2:26 PM Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Moving mail servers I am in the process of moving my Imail server to a different machine at a different hosting facility, hence a new IP. Does anyone have any suggestions for making this a smooth transition? I have moved Imail many times before, so I am not worried about the setup. What I am looking for is suggestions as to how to handle the lag time of routers picking up the new IP. I host mail for a number of my clients, so there may be a period of time where they cannot get to their mail. I would like to minimize this. I had thought about just turning off the old server once the DNS changes have been made so that no mail would be lost in translation, but I had also thought about converting it to a store and forward server so that the mail will get delivered to the new server quicker. What do you guys think? Thanks, Dean -- __________________________________________ Dean Lawrence, CIO/Partner Internet Data Technology 888.GET.IDT1 ext. 701 * fax: 888.438.4381 http://www.idatatech.com/ Corporate Internet Development and Marketing Specialists --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
