Add an additional mx record to your domains with the new IP's. You may also
want to lower the TTL on the dns records a few days in advance on those
domains to decrease the propagation time. Once you switch Imail to virtual
hosts and you are using the SMTP auth command it will no longer work! Doh!
Korey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy Harding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 12:10 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Moving from real IPs to Virtual IPs.. please help
> Hi,
>
> My hosting provider is requiring us to pay extra for IP numbers now so we
> are moving from 35+ IP numbers down to three. I plan on having the mail
> server on one IP all by it's self. I found the KB info on how to change
> each domain from a single IP to a shared virtual IP. What I don't get is
> after I do this won't any mail that was going to the old IP be lost? I
> don't want anyone to loose email but I'm not sure how to get around this
> issue. As soon as I make this change the DNS server will have to be
updated
> as well but of course that takes time to propagate the net. I had thought
> of creating new virtual domains and brining over all of the user accounts
> etc but I'm not sure if that will work. Most of my domains use SQL7 as
> their user db.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Roy Harding
>
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