URL forwarding = email forwarding?

[dquan97]

A church is outsourcing its website from in-house to a marketing company and is using a new domain name. If the marketing company wanted the old URL to be forwarded to the new one, do emails sent to accounts in the old URL get forwarded to the new URL automatically?

old domain - southsidecommunitychurch.net
new domain - southsidelife.net

Do emails sent to office@southsidecommunitychurch.net automatically get forwarded to office@southsidelife.net? Are there cases where this is automatic?

 

[Heisenberg]

Just edit the DNS entry for southsidecommunitychurch.net to point to the IP of the new server and everything should work.

 

[FoBoT]

if you have a MX record in DNS, i think that does it. if you only had an "A" record then it wouldn't

something like that

 

[dquan97]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Just edit the DNS entry for southsidecommunitychurch.net to point to the IP of the new server and everything should work.

I've already changed the DNS to the new nameservers. The website gets redirected, but emails dont.

 

[TekniDude]

The mail server needs to know that emails to *@southsidecommunitychurch.net are an alias of *@southsidelife.net
It's not automatic, you need to check with your host on how to do that. Should be simple as long as they provide that feature.

 

[dquan97]

Originally posted by: TekniDude
The mail server needs to know that emails to *@southsidecommunitychurch.net are an alias of *@southsidelife.net
It's not automatic, you need to check with your host on how to do that. Should be simple as long as they provide that feature.

The host has a domain forwarding option, but IMO, the URL redirection supersedes that.

 

[DnetMHZ]

URL forwarding != mail forwarding. They are 2 completely seperate configurations that need to changed, the new host should be able to assist with this.

 

[dquan97]

Originally posted by: DnetMHZ
URL forwarding != mail forwarding. They are 2 completely seperate configurations that need to changed, the new host should be able to assist with this.

I think I have figured out a solution: Instead of changing the nameservers, I should just forward the visits to the index.html to the new URL. That way, mail can continue to go through, since the domain is still kept with the old DNS. Will test it late tonight.

 

[dquan97]

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