Did your migration go through properly? Any troubles?
Austin Jorden
Digitalpath Texas
http://www.dptexas.com
On Mon, August 14, 2006 4:06 am, Kurt Bigler wrote:
My uplevel talked me into using an even simpler approach (more like
yours),
making my original question partly moot. The two
The way I personally do it, is move all the contents over, and after
that is all done, shut down the old qmail, set up a tcpserver with a
simple netcat to port 25 on the new server, and it is like a proxy.
All mail that would still be going to the old server because of old
dnscaches now
My uplevel talked me into using an even simpler approach (more like yours),
making my original question partly moot. The two servers (freebsd jail
vps's actually) are binary-compatible so we just rsync'd the entire server
(vps). We will do a final rsync for the real transition after doing some
I'm migrating my vpopmail server to a new machine. The DNS zones
fortunately do not have to be moved.
My tentative plan for how to achieve the transition is as follows.
(1) set up the new server with identical vpopmail domain/user structure
(2) have the new server ready to receive SMTP for
one thing you can do is to use the vdelivermail in your .qmail-default
so if your have a dns server that old server knows on how to get to the
new server example old.server.com to new.server.com then you can
redirect all mail from old.server.com to new.server.com by using the
simple script that I
I've worked with your exact setup before nearly.
The best thing you can do is..
1) Do nothing on your old vpopmail machine yet.
2) Install vpopmail on your new machine
3) DO-NOT create your domains or anything on your new machine yet.
4) Use Rsync through SSH to copy your vpopmail directory
