Author: Derrick MacPherson Date: To: exim-users Subject: RE: [Exim] HI. Swapping mail servers.
This looks like the answer
http://www.exim.org/mailman/htdig/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20000626/019055 .html
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> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 10:19 AM
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> Subject: [Exim] HI. Swapping mail servers.
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> I am about to swap in a new mail server, so I can rebuild the
> current one.
> I'm wondering if I can get some suggestions how to do this
> with minimal downtime.. One thing I thought of was setting
> the current box (#1) to queue_only and have no queue running
> for a bit, then move in the new box
> (#2) with the IP of #1, and set #2 to queue_only and then on
> #1 is FTP over my /var/mail/ directory to #2, then somehow
> (suggestions on this please - would I do a smarthost on #1?)
> send all the mail in queue from #1 to #2, and then set #2 to
> deliver normally.
>
> Make sense? Sound like a reasonable way to do this?
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