Hello... I am taking over the website for a client and am moving them to my Planet cPanel box. They currently are on a NET box if that matters, but here is my question.

1. Right now they have mail going to XXX@yyyyy.com

2. the new site is xxx@zzzzz.com

3. I have created the new zzzzz.com site and they will be setting up matching mail box names on the new server to match the names on their old server.

4. When we make the cutover of their current domain name to the new server, do I simply park the old domain name on top of the new domain name and then they can get mails sent to either the old domain name or the new domain name as long as the mail name is the same?

To be clear, they can log in with POP to their old name and get their old mail or their new name, and get the mail going to the new domain name?

I did a little work with this on an Ensim box, but haven't tried to alias mail on a cPanel box and they seem to work differently in this manner?

Thanks,

Lew

Under Mail / Forwarders, there's a second button at the bottom, "Add Domain Forwarder" --- BUT ... No, they wouldn't be able to login with the old domain like that. Whatever you setup is how it's gonna be.

Instead, you might think about creating the Old Domain on the new box, and parking the new site on top of it, and adding an Apache Redirect to send people to the new domain on the web, and "Add Domain Forwarder" under mail --- that way it'll all be transparent.

Not to confuse the issue, but I am not just making the domain name change...the old server was Windows...I can't move over the site as they had it, nor do they want the old design.

I created a new design on the new server with the new domain name and we will be forwarding the old domain to the new server when they are satisfied with the new site.

I know on my ensim box there is a link for every email addy for every domain aliased to it...

joe@abc.com
joe@def.com
joe@ghi.com
etc..

and the same thing repeats for every email addy...

There is only one actual email box for joe, but it links all the parked domains to it so I assumed a mail for joe at abc.com would still go to the joe@def.com mailbox where he would get it?

Maybe how it works on Ensim is different?

Thanks,

Lew

It doesn't work the same way. The instructions for how to do what you asked are in my last reply. ;-)

Domain Forwarders ... That is what you have to use to have all mailboxes work on both domains.

Parking the Domain only adds the domain to the Apache configuration... It doesn't have the same functionality as Domain Aliasing in Ensim.

Since you're setting everything up as the "new" domain on the new box, they will have to use the new logins. There is no way around that. So I suggest that if they're not using the new domain yet, and you're going to change the design, you can do exactly as I said, dump the new design into it, and have a seamless transition and they won't have to change their logins, provided you set all paswords the same.

Thanks for helping me understand that... I am not at 100% yet but there is now a new complication...

I knew they had a windows server for their web site, I didn't know they had an Exchange server for their office server and email...so...sounds like the NS will have to stay where it is and change the www record to the new site....but even if mail wasn't an issue, would you put the new design up under the old domain name and park the new domain name on top?

Thanks..

Lew

If they're using Exchange, then none of the mail bits matter at all. You can setup DNS where you like, don't provide mail service in their package, and point the MX record to their Exchange Server.

In that case, it doesn't really matter how you set it up. ;-)