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Re: relocating mail server




On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Allan M. Wind wrote:

> On 2000-01-25 01:55:39, tphan@iqrinc.com wrote:
> 
> >   I'd like to know how to forward all the emails from my current
> >   email server to this new potato box?
> 
> You were not really specific in what you wanted to do, so I assume
> that you have an mta and you want everything moved to a new mta:
> 
> Setup mail.new server to access mail for your domain. Change MX record
> to point to mail.new config on mail.orig.  Change config on mail.orig
> to not accept mail for your domain.

And if you don't want mail to arrive on mail.orig and you want it to be
delivered to mail.new then set up explicit MX record for mail.orig to
explicitly point to mail.new.

Robert Varga


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