[ale] OT: Moving email from one web host to another.

[James Sumners]

Basically, shut down the email service on the old server once you are
ready for your users to start using the new server. Any email servers
trying to send to your old server will get no response until their DNS
records update (which really shouldn't take too long). They will keep
trying to send the emails to your server for a few days before
dropping the email. The DNS records should update before that happens.

It's not pretty, but it's a helluva lot better than trying to juggle
emails between servers.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:29 AM, William Fragakis <william at fragakis.com> wrote:
> Any tips for moving email accounts when moving domains from one web host
> to another?
>
> Obviously, all the email accounts will be replicated on the new server
> before hand but outside of having the old server also forward emails to
> a "neutral account" e.g. gmail, is there anything else to be done to
> keep emails from sliding into the abyss as the new DNS info propagates?
> Or, am I missing something obvious in setting up the dns records?
>
> thanks,
> William



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