- Domain Transfer Query (Email)
- Posted by luisjorge222 on March 16th, 2006
I have a question in regards to the effects on email when transferring
a domain from one hosting provider to another.
I have a website hosted with a hosting company and am about to initiate
the process of switching my website to another host. I have about 20
people that have email accounts at that website.
My question is two fold:
1. Does email go down during a Domain Transfer?
2. When the Domain Transfer is complete, will an email user still have
access to all of the previous emails in their Inbox?
Thank-You,
Luis
- Posted by Karl Groves on March 16th, 2006
"luisjorge222" <luisjorge222@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:1142517322.483372.50750@j52g2000cwj.googlegro ups.com:
Yes and no.
Here's what I do:
Keep the old hosting account during the transfer
Establish the new account and set up all the mail accounts to be the same
(i.e. passwords, etc.) as the old account.
THEN initiate the transfer.
There *may* be some weirdness as the DNS changes propagate, but the impact
should be minimal.
Maybe I'm not understanding, but if you're switching hosts, and the user
still has email on the OLD host's machine, then the user will only be able
to access that e-mail if they have access to that machine. Once access to
that machine is gone, so is their access to that e-mail. Bottom line: tell
them to take their e-mail off the machine before making the switch.
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- Posted by William Tasso on March 16th, 2006
Fleeing from the madness of the Somewhat jungle
Karl Groves <karl@NOSPAMkarlcore.com> stumbled into news:alt.www.webmaster
and said:
In addition - and to head off some of the weirdness.
create a second MX record pointing to the new mail server - this should
have a lower value (higher priority) than the existing MX - it's a good
plan to do this late Friday in 'Western' territories.
during the propogation period mail may end up at either mail server.
users are still connecting to old mail server.
when mail dries up at old mail server you can kill the corresponding MX
and point your users at the new server where they should find a bunch of
new mail waiting for them. In situations where timely response to mial is
crucial, your users will simply (hah <g>) connect to both mail servers for
the duration.
You can just kill the mail account at the old server at the same time as
creating the new MX - any mail trying to go to the old mail server will
bounce. Any sending mail server worthy of the name will retry for several
days before giving up.
--
William Tasso
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- Posted by luisjorge222 on March 16th, 2006
It doesn't seem like either my Website host or registrar gives me the
option to edit the MX record
- Posted by Karl Groves on March 16th, 2006
"luisjorge222" <luisjorge222@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:1142535903.511755.174300@i39g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com:
Find a host that does.
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http://chevelle.karlcore.com
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- Posted by William Tasso on March 16th, 2006
Fleeing from the madness of the http://groups.google.com jungle
luisjorge222 <luisjorge222@hotmail.com> stumbled into
news:alt.www.webmaster
and said:
Well someone somewhere must be able to[1]. Which nameservers is the
domain using? whois will show.
[1] Whether they will is another matter entirely.
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William Tasso
whither a trophy?
- Posted by luisjorge222 on March 16th, 2006
Primary Host Server Name: ns1.zabco.net
Primary Host IP Address: 207.176.137.2
Secondary Host Server Name: ns2.zabco.net
Secondary Host IP Address: 66.46.105.2
The Website Registrar is NetworkSolutions and the host is Alentus
- Posted by Karl Groves on March 16th, 2006
"luisjorge222" <luisjorge222@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:1142538542.005836.33080@e56g2000cwe.googlegro ups.com:
Who are you talking to?
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- Posted by luisjorge222 on March 16th, 2006
This is in response to William Tasso's question on which nameservers is
the
domain using
- Posted by William Tasso on March 16th, 2006
Fleeing from the madness of the http://groups.google.com jungle
luisjorge222 <luisjorge222@hotmail.com> stumbled into
news:alt.www.webmaster
and said:
These nameservers are owned/managed by your current web/mail host and are
therefore not suitable for use during this process.
ok - so ...
o Find yourself a friendly DNS provider (There are free/cheap/expensive
services available) This may even be a service provided by N/Sol for all I
know.
o Set up your domain on the nameservers with the same data it has now -
except use small TTL values. You can get all/most of the info with
nslookup and/or dig if you don't already know it.
o Log into your NetworkSolutions account and point your domain at these
new nameservers.
o Test everything is as it should be.
o Start mail transfer process.
o Test everything is as it should be.
o Start web transfer process.
o Test everything is as it should be.
o Retire to a warm climate.
--
William Tasso
whither a trophy?
