on 6/5/02 12:00 PM, Warren Michelsen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As specifically regards email service, what tricks or hints can you folks > offer to ensure a smooth transition and continuity of email service when > moving an existing, functional domain from elsewhere to a new mail server? > > I'm acquiring a domain with a dozen or so email accounts (a law firm) and I > need to ensure that they can, to the greatest degree possible, always receive > their email. > > What has experience taught you good folks?
Set up accounts on the new server. Then make sure that they are consistently using something like "mail.lawfirm.com" for pop and smtp. Set up backup MX records. I would set your new mail server to be the backup for the lawdomain. Then when you switch any servers that have the old data cached will also know the mx address of your new server and will try it. Then after the switch take out the mx record for the old server and have "mail.lawfirm.com" point to your mail server. I would switch them around 7pm on a Friday. Michael ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
