>From what I read you use internal Imail DB. Here is what I would do. Actually I have done it a couple of times to migrate to new servers. I use a Spool and Forward Box to make sure my users don't lost emails while migrating. It has worked great. I usually write down steps before starting to make sure I don't miss anything. But usually in the run you forget one or two things.. you can easily fix that up... but unfortunately I haven't kept those papers after job is done.
Here are my suggestions. Install 8.04 in your new Box.. install all SP, patches, fixes from Windows... Backup your registry (the Imail part of course). Write down the IP numbers of the new machine... if it is going to have the same IP numbers as your old one, it should be easier. If you can connect to the internet without interfering with your old imail box, setup a test domain to make sure everything works fine. WebMessaging, IMAP, POP3, SMTP, antivirus, etc,etc,etc... I assume you know how MX works in order to configure the new domain to point to your new Imail Box. Once everything is working just fine. You can follow these steps. 1. setup a spool and forward Imail box in order to keep getting mails from your clients while you migrate everything to your new server. Depending on how large are the files your are transferring and how fast you can transfer them it can take from 10 minutes -it is just a guess- to a few hours if you are connecting servers remotely over the internet. Having a Spool and Forward Imail box makes sure emails to your clients will be received while you setup your new Imail box. If you don't know much about spool and forward you can either bypass this step or start reading about it and setting up one to make sure it works and then use during migration. Make sure to setup a MX20 to the spool and forward Imail Box for all domains before you start migrating 2. If you setup a spool and forward server, receive your email but forward it to an invalid Imail server while migrating (use a fake IPs in the hosts file).. that way you receive all the email from your users but it won't be delivered to the new IMAIL box until you decide it is time to do so. Also change your settings in that box to try to delivered email for at least 3 days, before bounce it to the original sender 2. stop all services in your old Imail Box. Stop all services in your new box. Change primary MX to point to your new Imail Box. Copy Imail folder (just the domains) to your new Imail box an Imail folder location. Export registry and import it in your new box. Make sure your IP configuration for domains is appropriate for your new Box. That is very, very important. 3. Double make sure to change MX to point to your new Box if it is necessary to make the change. You only have to do that if your new Imail Box has a new IP.... also disconnect old box.. just to make sure... jejeje. 4. Turn on all services from new box... everything should work normally. 5. In your Spool and Forward box go to the hosts file and change the fake IP with the real one from your new Imail Box. Restart services... all email received by your users while migrating data, will be forwarded to your new Imail Box. You can then delete your MX20 from all domains, and when the Spool and Forward Box stopped receiving email.. you can uninstall Imail from that Box. Regards Luis Arango -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMail Forum] upgrade advise I am upgrading from IMAIL 6.06 to 8.04 I want to do a clean install on a new windows 2K server with a clean copy of IMAIL. Any thoughts on the best way to migrate users and domains to the new machine. I have approx 100 domains and approx 10-30 users per domain. My concern is the mail sitting on the hard drives. I think once before I exported the registry settings and imported in the new machine and adding the hard drives to the new server. Of course then I get any hacks / virus/ etc Thanks...Tim To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ ______ [Email scanned for viruses by Panda Consulting -www.pandacons.com-] [Email escaneado contra virus por Panda Consulting -www.pandacons.com-] ______ [Email scanned for viruses by Panda Consulting -www.pandacons.com-] [Email escaneado contra virus por Panda Consulting -www.pandacons.com-] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
