pcuptime
11-22-2001, 11:16 PM
I have a basic question about e-mail. I have one domain which has e-mail through everyone.net. There's no web hosting. I would like to transfer this domain to a reseller host. The DNS is hosted externally at mydomain.com, so I could add an MX record pointing to the new host. If I gave it a "0" distance, would this result in the new host's e-mail servers picking up the e-mail as soon as the DNS servers of the world are updated? If I am understanding this correctly, at first e-mail would be handled by everyone.net until the DNS servers of the world are updated. Would this result in e-mail spread over two servers for about a week?
Chicken
11-23-2001, 03:56 AM
If your email is handled by everyone.net for this domain, and you want to continue having everyone.net handle your email (as I'm guessing you would, then you could do one of two things...
One, keep mydomain.com DNS the way it is in terms of MX records. Add A RECORDS for domain.com and www to point to the dedicated IP (or server IP) that the site is on. Or...
Two, ask your host to do DNS for you (which they usually would do automatically), specifying that this domain uses everyone.net and that MX should be set to everyone.net's servers, not their server. Once this is all set up, you would then change your nameservers at your registrar for this domain to your host's nameservers (mydomain.com's DNS would be out of the picture at this point, once everything propagates).
Side note:
I don't understand why you'd want to set a MX Record to the new host, since if you do this, mail will not be delivered to everyone.net (and I'm assuming you'd like this to continue???).
pcuptime
11-23-2001, 10:04 AM
No, actually I want the new host to take over e-mail and I'm just trying to do it in a way where there will be no or little disruption in service.
kwimberl
11-23-2001, 12:59 PM
72 hours should be sufficient. You don't need to keep checking Everyone.net after that.
Chicken
11-23-2001, 04:25 PM
Do you currently have members that use the everyone.net mail? If not, no problem, if so, you'd need to add these users manually to the new server.
bobcares
11-26-2001, 04:57 AM
Hi!
First you just need to add an A record to the record. Then modify the MX settings to the new mail servers. However after that everyone.net would not be handling your mail.
As mentioned earlier this usually takes only about 72 hours at the most.
I have just one question. What are you users going to do about the old mail and address book etc...
Have a nice day :)
regards
amar
