On 1/5/2011 10:14 AM, Jon McCauley wrote: > On 1/5/2011 1:37 PM, Jim Dory wrote [edited]: >> 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. >> >> Assume I'll maybe want to make some changes there such as >> https://mail.nomealaska.org in place of existing? >> 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 >
I've been giving this a bit more thought. Our DNS MX record points to nomealaska.org and this is working. Our new website will be www.nomealaska.org - and my A record will point to that new ip address. I've created an A record of webmail.nomealaska.org pointing to our email server's ip address. Can I have webmail users access their mail by going to https://webmail.nomealaska.org instead of having our new hosting company create a redirect on the new website from www.nomealaska.org/webmail ? I see in /etc/httpd/conf.d/squirrelmail.conf there is an Alias field that now has "/webmail /usr/share/squirrelmail". Can that be changed to "webmail/ /usr/share/squirrelmail" assuming the server remains named nomealaska.org with an alias of webmail.nomealaska.org? Or is this possible and if so, how to do it? Do I need to install a new SSL certificate for https://webmail.nomealaska.org even though it would be an alias of existing nomealaska.org? thx, 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
