You mentioned changing the DNS servers at the same time, so that's the biggest issue with the 24-48 hour propagation. MX record changes can take a few hours to a day to propagate. Host records changes take only up to the TTL you set on the zone.
If you're not changing the DNS servers, and just changing the records, you can make this switch a lot quicker, but I still prefer to set up the new one and either run in parallel or store and forward. Right, the second option of store and forward would probably be a bit cleaner. Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julian Voelcker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 11:56 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Moving Domain to virtual domain on a different machine Thanks Darin, slightly more complicated than I was hoping. I thought I could just shut down the mail server, transfer it and then swap the IP address in the DNS before bringing it back on line. On the forwarding side of things, if I do the above and then reconfigure the old server with an inbound rule to forward all messages to the IP address of the new server, shouldn't that take care of any straggler messages that are being redirected by old DNS entries? Cheers, Julian Voelcker The Virtual World (UK) Limited Cirencester, United Kingdom To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
