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Hi
Do some guys have found an easy way to migrate mail servers between virtualmin instances ? I use the backup feature to transfer easily a customer account from one of my server to the other one but how do you handle the mail issue ?? I mean fact that during few hours/days some emails will still arrive at old server (due to DNS refresh) !!
Thanks for your ideas,
Vincèn
I've done a bunch of mail migrations over the years.
You have a lot of options.
You can:
The simplest is turning off the mail server on the old server and making the move as fast as possible. I've done it this way even on servers that have other domains, if I know it's only going to take a couple of minutes.
In all cases, whenever moving to a new server, make sure you make you DNS TTL really short a day or two before the move, so you can expect outside servers to pick up the change quickly once you change your mail server and other records.
Edit: In all cases, I recommend you practice on a development server. It's somewhat tricky to get all the bits to happen in the right order if you've never done it before.
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