Web Hosting : Server Migration / Email issues

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This web hosting thread started by g4p on 08 October 2008

I’m moving some clients from a plesk VPS (7.0.4) to a WHM/Cpanel VPS (WHM 11.23.2 cPanel 11.23.4)

We use mail.ourdomain.net for the mailservers and this is currently pointed to the Plesk VPS.

I’m a little concerend that if the client starts picking up mail from the new box while the odd piece is still going through to the old one then there will be some messages missed.

Is there any way of getting the Cpanel box to pick up messages from the Plesk box via POP3? Or is there another way to avoid this issue?

The idea would be to first set up the mailboxes/accounts on the Cpanel box, have it pick up mail from the Plesk box (via IP address), then point mail.ourdomain.net to the Cpanel box then one by one move the domains over – hopefully giving the clients a seamless move.

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