Steve Devine wrote:
> We are going to be upgrading and retiring some mx machines. What I am
> wondering is if I create a new machine can I tar up exim/input/* and
> move it over to the new machine?
> Will the new exim accept these spooled messages as if they were there
> own? Maybe theres a better way than just tarring them up?
> Does the host name have to stay the same? Wondering what others have done.
> Thanks
> /sd
>
Well, when I was in this situation I created a smarthost-Router on
the old box which points to the new box with * as domain.
So after the next (forced) queue run everything was immediately
pushed to the new box.
Drawback is, that spool/retry times restart at zero on the new box :-(
Olaf
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