[CentOS] Change server name in postfix configuration

Mon May 12 12:56:51 UTC 2014
Laurent CREPET <pebkac at itguy.fr>

- 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.


On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Joseph Hesse <joehesse at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 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.com to
> 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.
>
> Thank you,
> Joe
>
>
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