Re: Graceful way to move user's mail from one host to another?
> How about:
>
> * stop your smtpd (exim/postfix whatever) so you are not accepting any
> new mail
> * stop your popd/imapd so users cannot mess with their mail
> * move the mail
> * start smtpd/popd/imapd as appropriate
> * flush backup relays if you use them
You can shorten the move time by doing a pre-copy while the
system is active- something like ...
newhost# rsync -av --delete oldhost:/dir/. /dir/.
...and then just transferring deltas with the
daemons down... (same command as above). So during the key
downtime there's no time wasted transferring files that have
not changed.
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