Roderick A. Anderson: > Not too clear from the subject and probably a lame idea. > > Situation: We have a system (MX1) that is having hardware problems. > Currently they are irritations but we want to rebuild the system before > it really crashes. There are actually two systems so there is back up > (MX2) in case there is a failure. > > We created another system (MX3) and added it to the DNS records with a > priority the same as MX2 and gave MX1 a really low priority hoping to > slowly reduce traffic to it. > > It is going too slowly! So I was thinking instead of just shutting it
Turn off the SMTP daemon port on the MX1 (if it's Postfix) and let the queue drain. Wietse