Re: [Exim] OK I admit it this is a stupid question

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Author: Willie Viljoen
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To: exim-users, Kevin M. Barrett
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Subject: Re: [Exim] OK I admit it this is a stupid question
That should actually do it :)
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From: "Kevin M. Barrett" <kmb@???>
To: <exim-users@???>
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 3:11 PM
Subject: [Exim] OK I admit it this is a stupid question


> Folks,
>
> I need a bit of reassurance here. I currently have a server for a domain
> on one network and need to move it to a different network. My thought

was
> to set up the second server on the new network configured to accept the
> domain mail, re-configure the original server to act as a secondary MX
> server copy the mailboxes to the new server and then fire up the new
> server's exim process to start accepting the inbound email.
>
> What I need to understand is this...
>
> In DNS I will set newhost as MX value = 5 and the oldhost MX value = 10
>
> remove the domain from local_domain and put it in relay_domain on the old
> host.
>
> and finally just restart the exim process kill -HUP process_id
>
>
> am I missing anything here. It just seems way too simple..
>
> Thanks for the help
>
> Kevin B
>
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