Ben, I think you should be fine if you get the new box all up and running before hand and then just plug it in in place of the old box. Obvioulsy test it out and make sure it all going to work thoroughly beforehand. Why would you whack a desktop distro on the box instead of debian woody?
Not sure about the errors, however my pick for MTA/pop server is postfix and courier. dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Donohue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 5:03 PM Subject: [SLUG] email server errors > Hi Slugs, > > We are getting lots of "unrouteable mail domain" messages both from internal > messages going out and we are hearing from others emailing us that emails > have been sent but bounced back from us. (Even this message bounced back > once) > I'm looking into "frozen messages" errors from the exim logs. > > I suspect the email server, which is currently running debian and > exim/qpopper, is on a very underpowered machine. (pentium 90 64Mb for > 350-400 users.) I'm looking at setting up a more powerful PC running (most > likely) Mandrake 8.2. > > Just looking for clues as to how you would migrate over to a new box without > interrupting the email flow. Clients are windows boxes with outlook clients > and a hard coded ip address for the debian mail server. Just looking for > pointers in the right direction and any gotcha's that anyone has had. > > TIA > Ben > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
