On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 20:08 -0600, Gary Mills wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 08:18:15AM -0500, Ken Murchison wrote:
> > Gary Mills wrote:
> > >
> > >Can I use the old server as both a front end and one of the back ends
> > >for a murder configuration, with the new server as the second back end?
> > >Will that allow me to migrate mailboxes at my convenience? How do I
> > >prevent a port conflict between the IMAP server and the proxy on the
> > >old server?
> >
> > You'll have to run the frontend + mupdate master on a separate machine.
>
> Unfortunately, all the clients know the IP address of the old server,
> so the frontend has to run there.
Yes. But not the way you think - assign old server ip to the new machine
with frontend.
> Of course, the old IMAP server has to run there too.
Wrong. Assign new ip to the old server.
Frankly there are simplier ways to do the migration than playing with
frontend and mupdate -> perdition. You will use same scheme though -
assign the ip users are used to use to the perdition and give new ip
to the old server.
M.
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