I tried copying my Maildirs to a different partition and mounting that
partition as the original. After that' mail could not be delivered. It
seemed that the actual inodes were being referenced. I would make a few
test runs.
I was able to recently takeover a domain name for a friend. I setup the
mail accounts on my machine, did the DNS change. On my DNS, I referred to
the old server until I was sure InterNic had made their change. Once they
changed completely, I access the old mail server with POP and used Outlook
Express to "drag" the mail to the new accounts where I had setup
courier-imap. I changed my DNS to point to my system for mail and monitored
the old accounts for a few days just to make sure no mail slipped into the
old server. The users never knew there was a switch since I had a copy of
all their usernames and passwords.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gordon Veri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 11:01 PM
Subject: Tranferring Domains
Hello,
I have a question. I have built a new virtual mail server and want to
transfer existing domains to the new machine without having the existing
people who use the virtual server knowing what it is happening. In
short I want it to be seamless. I was thinking I would first on the new
mail server add the domains. Then I would copy over the domains
directory with all the password and mail directories intact. I would
also check the ownership's on the directories, but I think it should be
okay. I would then take the DNS name and IP of the old machine and
attach it to the new one.
Can anyone see any problems with this and has anybody tried to do it
this way.
The upgrade was not only in software, it was a Operating System,
Vpopmail version and a much needed hardware upgrade.
Regards,
Gord
