And if it's on a new host and/or IP? Users are down during the switchover and propagation.
I agree that it's more of a pain, but a lot of our users will call if the mail server is unavailable for a single minute. Setting it up to have no interruption actually saves us time because of fewer support calls. But yes, if the new machine will be on the same IP/hostname as the old one, then I agree that this is much simpler. Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Moving Domain to virtual domain on a different machine >and either run in parallel duplicates the mailboxes, users need to change their mail clients to check both, totally impractical, then maybe still havet merge the old/new .mbx before turning off the old one. >or store and forward. stop the old one, copy the mailboxes, start the new one. why make it complicated? >Right, the second option of store and forward would probably be a bit >cleaner. simplest is just turn off the old, copy mbx's, turn on the new one. simple, clean, immediate. Len _____________________________________________________________________ http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training : Denver; NYC; San Jose http://IMGate.MEIway.com : free anti-spam gateway, runs on 1000's of sites 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/
