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 9. Finally, you can run `cmdeploy run` to turn on chatmail on the new server.
     Your users can continue using the chatmail server,
-    and messages which were sent after step 9 should arrive now.
+    and messages which were sent after step 6. should arrive now.
     Voilà!
 
 ## Setting up a reverse proxy