Converting Forwards to User Accounts

There is a checklist of suggested things to do:

1. Back up existing User Database.

   Note: It is recommended that you create new back ups after each conversion so that if you find a problem down the road you will not have overwritten any important information in the registry.

2. Give users notice of change.

   You will have to determine what is an adequate amount of time for your users to receive the notice, however, they will not be able to change the configuration of their email clients until AFTER the conversion has been made on the server.

3. Give users instruction for changing their email clients.

4. Perform the conversion to a limited number of domains (one at a time is suggested).

5. Perform tests on the server to see that user accounts are functional. (Send a test message to each of the new User accounts on the Secondary domain to ensure that no bounces occur.)

6. Repeat steps 1 through 5 until all Secondary domains have been converted.

It is recommended that a copy of the original user database as well as (at least) the most recently converted domains be kept. The original would be needed in case you revert to SLmail 4.x and a back up should be performed after each domain conversion "just in case" a failure occurs.