Temp mail host (rh8 to rh9)

[Rick Stevens]

karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:

Hijacking threads, are we Karl?  Hmmmm?   ;-)

> I'm going to be copying my server which runs RH8.0 from an 8GB to a 40GB
> disk (earlier post...). It's a live system and I'll be bringing it down
> during the install and copy.
> 
> I plan to point my firewall to a second RH system running RH9 and put up a
> simple page for each domain I host stating that the sytem will be
> unavailable, etc...
> 
> I'm wondering if there's some [relatively simple] way to allow email in
> and put it in a queue to be delivered later...

If the MX record points at the new server, yes.  Put the domain names
in /etc/mail/relay-domains.  When the new server comes up, make sure
it answers to those domain names.
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