You are still missing the easy way. Sandy was talking about it, but you don't appear to have seen it. Imail supports HOST aliases as well as user aliases.
Set up ONE domain (I believe you already have one). Set up the other domains as aliases to the host. Now, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] are all the same thing. You would change the account (and reply-to, password and topdir) to sharyn.schmidt and set up an alias for sharyn.schmidt of sschmidt, and not worry about the rules, or which DNS records were polled to get to your Imail machine. Clear as mud? KISS Dan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sharyn Schmidt Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 8:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Best practice for domain and email format change (1) you need a *user* named 'sharyn.schmidt', not one named 'sschmidt'; We have a program that will export all existing email accounts to an excel spreadsheet, then replaces existing accounts with the new accounts, then imports them back to wherever we want to import them. So, new accounts will all be created for the old existing accounts. (2) you need an *alias* named 'sschmidt' that forwards to the new account, or you need a forward-all placed on the old account; The current email address, [EMAIL PROTECTED] will have forwarding on it for a certain amount of time, then it will be dropped altogether. We are not as concerned with allowing the internet to reach us at the old addresses as we are "starting fresh" and do not want to be associated, after a time with cruzaninc. (3) You need to preserve or transfer all the rules and any other settings for 'sschmidt' into 'sharyn.schmidt'; We are a small company (approx 300 users)so there aren't too many rules, this can be done manually, I'm guessing. (4) You need to change the webmail Reply-To: for the account to 'sharyn.schmidt'; Will this not change automatically if I have everyone log into http://mail.floridadistillers.com:8383 rather than mail.cruzaninc.com? (5) You need to preserve the password associated with 'sschmidt'. The password issue is going to be the biggie. I believe we are just going to have everyone bite the bullet and get new passwords with new email addresses (rememeber we aren't an ISP or a very big company). This is going to be such a major change for everyone that it won't phase them to get new passwords. I will have some help from desktop support as far as the local outlook settings go, I just have to make sure things are right on the server. Again, the complexity of the above is predicated on the idea that the boss doesn't want *any* 'sschmidt'-style legacy names hanging around, even in Outlook POP3/SMTP settings or webmail logins. The legacy names are going to be hanging around, as well as the entire domain for approx 2 or 3 months. Actually, we are going to be running 3 domains at the same time, the old alias, todhunter.com, the current domain, cruzaninc.com and the new one, floridadistillers.com. My biggest problem here is how to first set up the new domain (I'm thinking, as a virtual domain) then transfer it to the OHN and primary domain, once the current primary domain is gone. Or does it even matter? To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
