Roderick A. Anderson:
> Not too clear from the subject and probably a lame idea.
>
> Situation: We have a system (MX1) that is having hardware problems.
> Currently they are irritations but we want to rebuild the system before
> it really crashes. There are actually two systems so there is back up
> (MX2) in case there is a failure.
>
> We created another system (MX3) and added it to the DNS records with a
> priority the same as MX2 and gave MX1 a really low priority hoping to
> slowly reduce traffic to it.
>
> It is going too slowly! So I was thinking instead of just shutting it
Turn off the SMTP daemon port on the MX1 (if it's Postfix) and
let the queue drain.
Wietse
