On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:22:43 -0600, Tim Wilson <wilson at visi.com> wrote: > What did you do with incoming messages during the transition time? well, this is the beauty of MX records. Build the new system while the old one is still in use, then for a time keep both running and change the MX record in DNS to point to the new server. Obviously this will mean you would need some way of replicating messages from the old system to the new one but this should be fairly trivial (see below). > How did you move the mailboxes from the old system to the new one? I have 0 experience with the server software you are using, but I am guessing there must be some kind of migration tool you can use. If not you can probably script up something to take input from a file where all the users are listed to actually create the mailboxes and users. As far as moving messages, perhaps in the beginning you could set up an NFS share (or whatever mac os9 will let you do) from the old machine and after the DNS has propogated you could set aside a time to just take down the old machine and copy all the data to the new machine. -- Loren H. Burlingame <loren at lhb.name> GPG Key ID: 0x112DCF4F "Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes." -William Shatner (a.k.a. Buck Murdock) _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list