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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!hunter.premier.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.ner.bbnplanet.net!news3.near.net!sol.caps.maine.edu!web.ddp.state.me.us!gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us!isdmill From: isdmill@gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us (David Miller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Moving Mail Date: 11 Jul 1996 17:12:57 GMT Organization: Maine State Government Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4s3cmq$ms5@web.ddp.state.me.us> References: <4rurhd$6e1@socrates.aristotle.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] cshivers@aristotle.net wrote: : Here's the problem. I have several thousands customers who all are on : my main server. They all have their mail clients directed to my : domain, aristotle.net. When I set this up, I should have had them : direct their mail to mail.aristotle.net, that way I could easily move : my mail to another server. Well I didn't. : Anyone know a simple way out of this other than trying to get 1000s of : customers to redirect their e-mail clients? Actually moving the mail is left as an exercise for the reader. As for redirecting the incoming mail to the new server, install or update the MX record for the domain. If you want users with POP clients to read mail off another server, download the fwtk package from ftp.tis.com and use the plug-gw piece. The incoming connections will still come to the wrong server, and it will see all the packets, but will just shuffle them back and forth to the new server. -- David Miller Usual disclaimers apply