yes it's working. but do it care fully, if you made any mistake you will find error in maillog. On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:32 AM, David Beveridge <dave at bevhost.com> wrote: > The change host name in /etc/sysconfig/network is really the primary one, > unless it has been hardcoded into main.cf > The main.cf entries you should concern yourself with is myhostname > (defaults to actual hostname if missing) and mydestination which is the > list of domains you accept mail for. > > I'd suggest just adding the new domain to mydestination is likely all you > need. > It's also possible that you old.com is setup as a virtual domain, in which > case you need to add your new.com to that list instead. > > The info at http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html is quite good. > If I were you I'd go through main.cf and look at each parameter in > http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html and see what it does, so you know > what you are changing. > > dave > > > On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Leon Fauster > <leonfauster at googlemail.com>wrote: > > > Am 12.05.2014 um 14:56 schrieb Laurent CREPET <pebkac at itguy.fr>: > > > > > > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Joseph Hesse <joehesse at gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > >> A consultant, long gone, set up postfix, dovecot, amavisd and > > >> squirrelmail for my wife. > > >> It works fine but my wife wants to change the server name from > old.com > > >> to new.com so the name is more appropriate for her business. > > >> My approach would be to use sed to change all occurences of old.comto > > >> new.com. > > >> Specifically, I used grep to identify the following files where I > should > > >> make the changes. > > >> > > >> /etc/postfix/main.cf > > >> /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf > > >> /etc/squirrelmail/config.php > > >> /etc/amavisd.conf > > >> /etc/sysconfig/network (change host name) > > >> In addition, there would be an MX record for mail.new.com pointing to > > >> the IP of the server. > > >> > > >> My question is, will this work or will I corrupt my email server? If I > > >> mess it up I can always restore it to the original. > > >> > > > - Maybe check /etc/hosts. > > > - What about the old domain ? You may not be able to receive e-mails > for > > > it. You can think about add the new.com in parallel with old.com on > the > > > same server. > > > > > > Check also your hosting name (e.g. httpd service). > > > > BTW - the MX entry can still have the old name and accepting > new.com-mails. > > > > Furthermore - take care if SSL/TLS is in use. Certificates are connected > > to domainnames. > > > > -- > > LF > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Asif Murad Khan Cell: +880-1713-114230