Re: my experience upgrading from exim3 to 4

2004-03-16 Thread Andy Firman
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 09:18:52AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-03-14, Vineet Kumar penned: That part about the process on port 25 is a bit strange, but having the init scripts in place shouldn't be a problem. Init scripts hang around when you remove (without purging) a

Re: my experience upgrading from exim3 to 4

2004-03-16 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-16, Andy Firman penned: I finally got motivated and upgraded to Exim4 as well but I did not go to the effort of using a backup MX. From what I know, most good MTA's are built with redundancy and will try for a couple of days before they drop any mail. My concern was being down

Re: my experience upgrading from exim3 to 4

2004-03-14 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Monique Y. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20040313 21:47]: In summary, the conversion itself was fairly painless. The only gotchas were that the exim start links were not removed from /etc/rc?.d and that for some reason something (presumably some undead form of exim3) was holding on to port 25.

Re: my experience upgrading from exim3 to 4

2004-03-14 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-14, Vineet Kumar penned: That part about the process on port 25 is a bit strange, but having the init scripts in place shouldn't be a problem. Init scripts hang around when you remove (without purging) a package, but they usually begin with something like

my experience upgrading from exim3 to 4

2004-03-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
Hi all! This is just a description of what I did to upgrade from exim3 to exim4. I hope it's useful to someone. I have an MX backup, so the first thing I did was to disable port 25 on my router. The logic was that this way, I could test my mail server internally without risking a loss of mail