At 12:10 PM -0500 6/5/02, Michael wrote: >on 6/5/02 12:00 PM, Warren Michelsen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> As specifically regards email service, what tricks or hints can you folks >> offer to ensure a smooth transition and continuity of email service when >> moving an existing, functional domain from elsewhere to a new mail server? >> >> I'm acquiring a domain with a dozen or so email accounts (a law firm) and I >> need to ensure that they can, to the greatest degree possible, always receive >> their email. >> >> What has experience taught you good folks? > >Set up accounts on the new server. > >Then make sure that they are consistently using something like >"mail.lawfirm.com" for pop and smtp. > >Set up backup MX records. I would set your new mail server to be the backup >for the lawdomain. Then when you switch any servers that have the old data >cached will also know the mx address of your new server and will try it. >Then after the switch take out the mx record for the old server and have >"mail.lawfirm.com" point to your mail server.
Hadn't thought of that. (Which is why I thought I'd ask.) Of course, both this and the previously-mentioned setting of TTLs to a low value all depend on the cooperation of the existing host. If she turns out to have a mean streak, she could actually set TTLs very high just to ensure that the transition does not go well. Against that contingency, what can I do? > >I would switch them around 7pm on a Friday. Not having analyzed by own traffic patterns, is this really a good time to do this? Not 2 AM or such? -- "Your new computer's not gonna be a Mac? Dude, you're getting a Dull!" ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
