Well, here's the rest of the story..

I've got DNS and Imail with Declude running on one box.

I bought a new box, installed just Imail and Declude, then moved users from
one box to the other.  It was working fine.  Came in a few days later and
discovered a bunch of errors and a couple of services running that I hadn't
installed.

Long story short, the new box had been hacked into and they were running
Firedaemon and ServU FTP.  Yes, I've done my research and I know what that
all means, and I have cleaned up the box, and moved everyone back to the
original Mail server.

So, now I have the new box sitting there, wondering if I should move
everyone back to it, or if I should put Win2000 on it, then move everyone
back.

By the sounds of things, since I'm so familiar with NT, I should just
cleanup what is there, make sure the box is secure, then move everyone back
to; and continue to do things the way I have been as I haven't had *any*
problems with NT4, sp6a, Imail 6.06 and Declude...


----- Original Message -----
From: "IMail @ Carrz-Fox-Fire Promotions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] NT4 vs Win2000


> Raymond Johansson wrote:
>
> >Hi
> >Don't do it.
> >Buy a new machine. Put win2000 on it and put new customers there. Let the
old ones be where it works.
> >(if it ain't broke, I don't fix it)
> >I have made the same upgrade error several time in my career. Recently I
upgraded
> >Cold Fuison 5 to Cold Fusion MX. Big error.
> >
> >
> Raymond, this is probably the best reply I have seen on this group.
> Pratical and for the person.
>
> Andy Baldwin
>
> If you have had great success with teh NT 4 server. ( I as well run NT
> 4) Keep it alive, and do as Raymond has
> suggested, This way you will have the time to configure the new server,
> with little or no down time due to error.
> As if you have never messed with the Win2k server, it is going to take
> you a little while to get your feet wet in it.
> With you NT 4 system still kicking over there, you will not have to
> worry about pulling your hair out, worring about
> the customers driving you crazy because they can send/receive email due
> to the upgrade.
>
> Good Luck
> Wayne
>
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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