Hello mok,
Saturday, August 26, 2000, 7:39:47 PM, you wrote:
msl> hi all!
msl> apology for this is not exactly a qmail specified question - we do use qmail
msl> though. ;)
msl> we are on the process of migrating of mail server, now have come to the
msl> point that we need to change
msl> mail.mydomain.com from 123.123.123.123 (old server ip) to 345.345.345.345
msl> (new server ip)
msl> wonder if anyone have any advice or experience on how to go about this
msl> process? what are the better way to do this, in order to minimize /
msl> eliminate the chances of lost mail?
msl> thanks in advance!!
msl> best regards,
msl> mok
Hi,
Ive done this last week and we did it like this:
1. unplug the old server from network
2. bind the old servers ip to the new server and let it be there until
evrey dns server has been updated.
We lost no mail when we did this, (we switched from MailMax on NT to a
clustered qmail system on Linux), the only problems was to get the
mails that already was delivered to the MailMax system to the new
system. But that was solved with a little bit of scripting.
Best Regards
Magnus L�fqvist
Worldnet AB
Sweden
