No the other reason is the age of the host and the fact I have beefier hardware to move to.
Sent from my android device. -----Original Message----- From: Steve Jenkins <st...@stevejenkins.com> To: Peter Berghold <salty.cowd...@gmail.com> Cc: "postfix-users@postfix.org" <postfix-users@postfix.org> Sent: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 19:01 Subject: Re: Migrating MX servers On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Peter Berghold <salty.cowd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am in the process of decommissioning my own personal email server which > is running on an antiquated version of CentOS and an old version of Postfix > (2.3.3) to a Debian 7 server running Postfix 2.9.6. > If the Postfix version is the only reason you're decommissioning the old CentOS box, why not just upgrade Postfix from 2.3.3 to 2.11 and keep all your old settings? This upgrade path works very smoothly on CentOS. Here's a walk-thru: http://www.stevejenkins.com/blog/2011/01/building-postfix-on-rhel-centos-from-source/ But if you have other reasons for wanting to change servers, then the steps Wietse shared are what you'll need. SteveJ
