On Fri 2023-04-14 04:58 AM MDT -0600, <k...@kenpope.com> wrote:
A very naive question: I’m currently using a domain name
(k...@kenpope.com) for my MailMate mail. I want to continue to use
that name when I move to Fastmail. If I open an account at Fastmail
with that domain name, won’t it close/end the account at my current
dedicated server *before* I can transfer my messages (i.e., I can’t
have both my current *and* my Fastmail accounts under the same
k...@kenpope.com, can I?)?
But if I open a Fastmail account under a different name (e.g.,
“k...@fastmail.com”), how do I then change my account name at
Fastmail to k...@kenpope.com?
You will necessarily have an address @fastmail.com although you don't
have to tell anybody else about it or send mail from it.
You should use fastmail's help docs and if necessary, ask questions of
their support staff. They've got you covered, they help people do this
all the time, and from my limited interaction with them, they're really
good.
That said, here's a little more info and what I can see as the current
state of things.
When a sending mail server has a message addresed to
anyth...@kenpope.com, it looks up the MX record for the domain. Right
now, yours is this:
$ host -t MX kenpope.com
kenpope.com mail is handled by 10 kenpope.com.
$ host -t a kenpope.com
kenpope.com has address 72.52.140.33
So when another mail server has a message addressed to
anyth...@kenpope.com, it will attempt to deliver it to 72.52.140.33. You
will need to change this to point to fastmail's incoming servers
instead.
For example, the MX records for jld3.net are now this:
$ host -t MX jld3.net
jld3.net mail is handled by 20 in2-smtp.messagingengine.com.
jld3.net mail is handled by 10 in1-smtp.messagingengine.com.
And yours will end up looking similar or (probably) identical.
The name servers for your domain are currently:
$ host -t ns kenpope.com
kenpope.com name server ns.liquidweb.com.
kenpope.com name server ns1.liquidweb.com.
So that's where the change will have to be made. There are some other
decisions to make here that I can't anticipate. For example,
www.kenpope.com exists and I don't know what you want to do with that or
when you want to do it.
If you want to leave liquidweb entirely, then you will have to have the
DNS for the domain hosted elsewhere. Fastmail can do that for you or you
could choose another DNS provider.
The registrar for kenpope.com is GoDaddy:
$ whois kenpope.com | grep "^Registrar:"
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
So they control what the name servers for the domain are. If you want to
change the name servers for kenpope.com from ns.liquidweb.com and
ns1.liquidweb.com to something else, that's where the change will have
to be made.
Here's some more info:
Custom domains with Fastmail
<https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360058753394>
Setting up your domain: NS/MX
<https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000278002>
Adding Fastmail nameservers to GoDaddy
<https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000278042-Adding-Fastmail-nameservers-to-GoDaddy>
I would encourage you to use fastmail's support. They can walk you
through this, they'll be happy to answer questions, address any concerns
you have, etc. They do it all the time and they're good at it.
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