On Fri, March 8, 2019 10:45 pm, Aki Tuomi via dovecot wrote:

On 8.3.2019 13.44, Voytek Eymont via dovecot wrote:

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I have Centos 7 with dovecot/postfix/mysql Maildir

I want to bring in a new server, new server will have same hostname as current, but, different IP

I was intending to rsync -avzhe ssh vmail@oldserver:/var/vmail/vmail1 /var/vmail/vmail1

and, then, re run as necessary when/if mail still arrives on old server

is that "a good plan" ...?

TIA, V

Yeah, it's ok as long as you haven't switched to new server.

Aki, thanks

I'm not certain I understand your comment properly

I currently have server 'geko'

intention was to change A record to assign geko to new IP/server, assign new hostname to oldserver A record

I guess I;ll still get some emails delivered to oldserver with new hostname/old ip for 24 hours or so after aA record change ?

so, I was going to re run rsync 2 or 3 times over the first 24 hours or so ?

are you saying NOT to rsync once A record changed ?

sorry for being slow

(sorry for sending not to list...)