While your folder mapping idea sounds much cleaner, here's a though I had in
case that doesn't work. What about automating a "forward" on all accounts
to the IP address for the domain on the new server? Sounds like it should
work.
Brian
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From: Me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 10:14 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Moving domains
> Hi there,
> Here is the situation and I hope someone can help. I have 2 servers
on
> the same lan. One of the machines was hosting a.com, and we need to move
it
> to the other machine. So, we can copy the directories over, export the
> registry then edit and re-import it. Voila, done. Not so fast. The DNS
> TTL problem. Mail will still go to the old server for some time. So the
> question arises that I need to get the mail out of the old boxes, and into
> the new ones. I have 2 possible solutions, but I don't know if either
will
> work, but whatever the solution, it needs to be automated, as there are
FAR
> to many users to do it all by hand. Here they are:
>
> 1) Set up some sort of forwarding for the entire domain (to the new ip
> address). It would need to forward the mail to the correct box on the
other
> end, and not to just some random box. unfortunately, I don't even know if
> this is possible, let alone how to do it, any help?
>
> 2) Since they are on a lan, couldn't I just point the Mail folder
directory
> on the old machine to a mapped folder on the new machine? Then both
servers
> would be placing mail into the new folder correct? Can this be done
safely?
> Having 2 servers using the same mail folders? Once again, I don't know if
> this can even be done.
>
> I figure someone around here has to have moved domains to new boxes
before,
> and how did you get around the DNS caching problem? Thank you in advance
> for any help you can provide.
>
>
>
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