Ok, in that situation I would remove the local=true setting from the 
gateway while the domain was renamed.

     ChrisP.


On 23/02/2016 12:16 p.m., surgemailHIDDEN@etwinsite.com wrote:
> Hello surgemail,
>
> surgemail-support wrote:
>
>> Another trick to disable the domain completely is to change the
>> vdomain 'name' setting to somethhing else in surgemail.ini manually,
>> e.g. vdomain name="domain.name.HIDDEN" that stops logins and
>> deliveries, but you cannot add/change users while it's renamed like
>> that....
> Thanks, that sounds like it can work. I'll give it a try.
>
> I'm assuming if I renamed the vdomain as you suggested, I will still be
> able to send emails to the actual domain (while the client hasn't
> migrated to my server yet)? I'm asking because I have the "check local
> first" option enabled, so mail doesn't need to go out and then back in,
> if I host those domains.
>