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I'm thrilled to share that I recently migrated some email domains from a Postfix/Dovecot setup to Mox. It's been a pleasure using this modern solution over the past few weeks. While making the switch, I gained some insights that I'd like to propose as potential improvements.
Currently, when migrating domains between email servers using Mox, there's a challenge:
- Mox immediately activates a newly created domain, acquiring certificates and allowing incoming and outgoing emails for any associated accounts/mailboxes.
- This behavior can complicate migrations where you need to import emails from the previous server before activating the new domain.
Proposed Solution: Disabling Domains and Accounts
This feature introduces two flags for disabling domains and accounts during migration:
- Disable Flag for Mailboxes/Accounts
- When set, Mox will:
- Reject incoming emails from external senders.
- Disallow sending emails from the associated mailboxes.
- Mimic the behavior of a non-existent email address.
- Reject incoming emails from external senders.
- Important: This flag should NOT affect:
- Importing/exporting emails.
- IMAP access (to check migration with a mail client; or using tools such imapsync).
- Access to the admin pages or mox commands
- Disable Flag for Domains
- When set, Mox will:
- Configure the domain with necessary keys (like current behavior).
- NOT establish or allow external connections. - This effectively disables all newly created accounts/mailboxes within the domain, inheriting the behavior of the "disable flag for mailboxes" described above.
- Purpose:
- Allows setting up the correct DNS entries (DKIM, etc.) and preparing the DNS configuration before activating the domain.
- Bulk data migration
Benefits
This feature simplifies domain migrations by:
- Preventing unintended email activity during the migration process.
- Facilitating DNS configuration by allowing key generation without establishing external connections.
- Enabling proper verification of the migration setup before activating the new domain.
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