We would like to setup a new zimbra mail server inside our company while our current mail server is hosted outside (Current mail server is not zimbra, but sendmail, Cyrus IMAP, etc).
1)
The problem for us is that we cannot test our zimbra mail server because now our mail server of DNS is pointing to outside mail server. We can change DNS record only after we complete our inside zimbra mail server. But if we don't change DBS records, we cannot test our inside mail server.
Usually how do you handle this problem?
2)
We can find a second spare domain to test our inside zimbra mail server, but it is only for the second domain, only the real domain we want.
The second question is: is there a simple way we just change mail server name and domain name to switch from one server/domain name to another server/domain?
e.g if we set up a zimbra mail server for mail server mail.aaa.com; domain mail.aaa.com with all email addresses of ***@aaa.com, can we change it into mail server mail.bbb.coml domain mail.bbb.com with all email addresses of ***@bbb.com?
If we can simply change from mail.aaa.com into mail.bbb.com, how to change it?
Look forward to help and suggestions. Thanks very much.
questions in setup a new zimbra mail server to replace current mail server
Re: questions in setup a new zimbra mail server to replace current mail server
Still hope any responses for above two questions.
Re: questions in setup a new zimbra mail server to replace current mail server
I think I would be tempted to setup a spare computer as a bind dns server for just the test zimbra server. Keep everything else in your network pointed to the real dns server.