Hi ... I hope this is the right place to post this question. I looked at all the other forums, and this one seems the closest, as it is related to my switching my web host provider.

After a few years at everyone.net, I want to move away from
them to the service provided by my soon-to-be new webhost.

When the switch occurs (particularly, the change in MX), all new mails to @mydomain.com will go to my new host's mail servers, and get stored there. No new mail will go to everyone.net's servers. My question is this:

Can my users still go to http://mydomain.mail.everyone.net/ to look at their old mail (forward it, download it, whatever), even AFTER the MX records have been repointed?

I mean, I'll probably tell people prior to the date of MX record change to download their important emails off everyone.net's servers, but just in case, I want people to get their new mail at the new host's servers, and still be able to look at any old mail that is on the everyone.net servers.

Thanks for any advice.

johnn

You will be able to download email, and I would advise that you do so after the MX change. 1: Do it before the MX change begins, in case something goes wrong, you'll hav that email. Then download email after MX changes, a day or two later, so that you can get any mail that was misdirected during propogation of the new MX record.

Originally posted by cholo1124
My question is this:

Can my users still go to http://mydomain.mail.everyone.net/ to look at their old mail (forward it, download it, whatever), even AFTER the MX records have been repointed?

Yes, everyone.net doesn't delete accounts very frequently. There are hundreds of EVERYONE.NET accounts that are live at ????????.mail.everyone.net but the domain name has long been expired.

As long as your users use http://mydomain.mail.everyone.net/, they will continue to be able to access their account, send mail from their everyone.net account and forward/clean out those boxes. Once the MX record change has been made, no new mail will go to the everyone.net mailboxes.

Here is a tip:

Make sure you get the new host to bounce all mail to addresses you have not created.
If they offer a catch all account this will need to be set to bounce
otherwise your account disk space will fill up with mail addressed to your previous users.

Trust me, I learned the hard way.

Gordon

Thanks all (and for the extra warning, Gordon).

I figured this would work, but not having done it, just wanted to verify. Appreciate the responses.

johnn