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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Moving Mail Date: 10 Jul 1996 10:23:51 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 42 Message-ID: <4s00bn$b8n@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <4rurhd$6e1@socrates.aristotle.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E 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? In your DNS: aristotle.net. IN SOA ... IN MX 10 mail IN MX 20 backupmail IN MX 100 another.backup.out.side. IN NS nameserver1 IN NS backup.name.server. realmail IN A 1.2.3.4 IN MX 10 realmail IN MX 20 backupmail IN MX 100 another.backup.out.side. mail IN CNAME realmail ...and then, add Cw aristotle.net in /etc/sendmail.cf at host realmail.aristotle.net. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j