Moving Mail Server to another location / IP address?

[Ashley Aitken]

Thanks to everyone who gave advice and suggestions on how to move a  
Mail Server running on MacOSX Server from one location (and IP  
address) to another location (and IP address).  It all seems to have  
worked out very well - at least there's been no major loss of data or  
email or mail services.

I ended up using a Backup MX Server provided by dnsexit.com (aka  
911domain.com).  They have a free trial service for 5 days.   
Considering I have 3 virtual domains that worked out cheaper than the  
$20 per domain per year.  I will setup a backup MX server at another  
site soon though.

Although mail went well I am having quite a bit more trouble with the  
database (MySQL), bulletin board software (phpBB2) and blogs  
(Wordpress).  Particularly since, in moving from MacOSX client to  
MacOSX Server one loses some control over the Apache httpd.conf file.

I'm sure its all doable and all services will be up again in a short  
while.

Thanks again for everyone's help.

Cheers,
Ashley.


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Ashley Aitken
Perth, Western Australia
mrhatken at mac dot com
Skype Name: MrHatken (GMT + 8 Hours!)