hi ya On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Nick Smith wrote:
> im going to be moving my mail server to another machine, and moving it off > site at another location (more bandwidth). what would the easiest way and > least down time way of doing that? i have the other machine already > installed debian and updated stable, courier is installed, squirrelmail, > etc, can i just copy over the config files and the Mailbox folders in each > account and have it work? i really dont want to have to go through the > hassle of reconfiguring everything and risk alot of downtime if i dont > have to. moving mail means you have zero down time - other than telling your pop servers where to pop mail from ( MX 30 or MX 20 or its already load balanced ) MX 30 ( secondarymail.ComputerNick.com) will be handling all your mail while your primary MX 20 ( mail.ComputerNick.com ) is down and being moved when mail.ComputerNick.com comes back online, all mail will be forward to it from secondarymail.ComputerNick.com - than move secondarymail when you have time each and any mail server should be able to do everything the other was doing ( especially antispam and antivirus rules ) c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]