On 1/5/2011 10:14 AM, Jon McCauley wrote: > On 1/5/2011 1:37 PM, Jim Dory wrote: >> I am moving our website off to a new hosting company, so >> nomealaska.org will be on a different server, different IP address. We >> are keeping our email server on the existing in-house server however, >> and unfortunately it is also named nomealaska.org. >> >> When traveling we access our work email by logging into >> nomealaska.org/webmail. That redirects to >> https://www.nomealaska.org/webmail. Here is what the new hosting company >> suggested we do to handle keeping our ability to log into webmail: >> >> " >> >> Since the overall domain of nomealaska.org will >> point to our web server, the address https://www.nomealaska.org/webmail >> will no longer work as it does in its current form. On your DNS server, >> we'll probably have to setup something like https://mail.nomealaska.org >> so that it points to the IP address of your mail server. We can then >> add a redirect for http://www.nomealaska.org/webmail so that it routes >> to your server. That will mean registering a new ssl certificate for >> your mail server so that it runs on https://mail.nomealaska.org. >> >> " >> Is this the easiest/best way of handling this? I have several users who >> only use webmail (squirrelmail) for accessing their accounts so they >> have email stored on the server. Hate to be much of a disruptor for them. >> >> Advice warmly welcomed. A nice outline of steps involved? >> cheers, JD > Jim, the quick's way to accomplish this is to have your new hosting > company create a PTR recorded ( taking they control the DNS) for > mail.nomealaska.org pointing to your email servers IP ( in House ). Then > go into the GUI of that mail server and change the web alias from > www.nomealaska.org to mail.nomealaska.org. Also if you have any DNS > recordes on this mail server clear the www entry's for this domain so > the mail resolves properly > > HTH > > Best Regards, Jon McCauley >
Thanks a bunch Jon, helps a lot with the confidence. I have control of DNS and right now, under the PTR records of our registrar it has: 3.125.12.12.in-addr.arpa for Reverse zone. If I click Edit, I am presented with input boxes for: Partial IP Address (reverse notation) and Host Name . This throws me as I'm not sure what they mean by "Partial". Would I just enter 3.125.12.12 for Partial IP Address and then mail.nomealaska.org for Host Name, or perhaps just mail? thanks much, Jim -- Jim Dory Engineering City of Nome PO Box 281 102 Division St. Nome, AK 99762 907.443.6604 http://www.nomealaska.org _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list [email protected] http://www.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx
