Dustin,
Prior to moving your mail files from one machine to the new machine be sure and
change the DNS TTL on your domain. You should change it to something like 15
minutes. Let that run for a period of time longer than your current DNS TTL.
Then move the files and make the change to your DNS. After about an hour or so
or longer if that is how long it takes for you to be satisfied that all is
working, change the DNS TTL back to your original value.
I did it just recently and it worked well for us.
Hope it goes smoothly for you!
Cheers,
Kevin Bull
Dustin Krysak wrote:
> Hi everyone....
>
> Sorry for the repeated question (I know it has been covered here before - I
> tend to sift through all the mail)...
>
> I'm moving my Mail services to a new machine/IP address....
>
> I'm curious as to what the best way is to handle this so that there is no
> lost mail while the DNS updates itself through out the web....
>
> Thanks in advance
> -Dustin Krysak-
> Network Analyst
> Beamscope Canada Inc.
> Vancouver, BC
>
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