Can't you just set up your mail boxes and then request mail forwarding with FreeParking? As Steve said, provided you don't cancel the FreeParking account for a week, all the mail will just switch over automatically when the DNS is updated.
Todd. > Another thing I just thought of is that their mailboxes are provided > as part of their hosting package, so if they cancel the hosting > package then the mailboxes go away. Just changing the A record to > point to the new hosting service would work, but to keep the mailboxes > they would need to still pay for the Freeparking hosting package (even > though they're just using the mailbox portion of it). > > On Mar 25, 10:47 am, lenz <[email protected]> wrote: >> just a short question ... why do you want the nameservers at all? all >> you need is a couple a-records that point to your host (for the domain >> itself, forwww.domain, maybe blog or so) the rest can happily stay >> with who ever looks after the domain. don't know freeparking too well >> but i am sure they have some sort of DNS editor where you can simply >> add records as needed. that way email remains how it is set up and all >> are happy (hopefully) >> >> cheers >> lenz >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Jochen Daum <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi, >> >>> On 25 March 2010 10:30, Super Steve <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> This is a little bit off topic for this group but I thought there's >>>> plenty of experience here so I might get some good answers. >> >>>> I've got a new client that has asked me to build a new site for them >>>> (they previously had an old site built by someone that has now >>>> vanished overseas). The site is nearly ready and I have to put some >>>> thought into the best way to migrate their hosting from the old >>>> company over to me. >> >>>> At the moment their domain name, hosting and email is all with >>>> Freeparking.co.nz but I will be taking over the hosting. I'm quite >>>> happy for the domain name to stay with Freeparking, and I know it's >>>> just a matter of logging into their Freeparking account and changing >>>> the name servers to point to me. >> >>>> The thing I'm worried about is their email. I can set up mailboxes >>>> for them on my service but I believe as soon as I change the name >>>> servers Freeparking will drop their mailboxes. >> >>> I won't research if this is true, I just take that a given for now. >> >>>> This could cause a >>>> problem because there may be a day or more where email will still be >>>> sent to Freeparking due to the delay in other systems updating their >>>> copies of the zone record. >> >>> You need to find a email provider that can host your email without >>> having to have the DNS for it. All of them do it, you just can't use >>> Freeparking as they have the DNS currently. >> >>> Move DNS to somewhere without email, but keep MX records in place, so >>> they point to Freeparking. I'm pretty sure they won't drop the email >>> boxes, because DNS is somewhere else, only Xtra does that (better >>> check though) >> >>> Then set up new email and point MX to the new server. Wait 24 h. >> >>> Then move DNS to final place. >> >>> BTW, we just discovered this problem as well with Webdrive, so will >>> likely move DNS somewhere completely else in any case, currently >>> probably nettica.com >> >>> HTH, Jochen >> >>> -- >>> NZ PHP Users Group:http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug >>> To post, send email to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe, send email to >>> [email protected] >> >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> nzphpug+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words >>> "REMOVE ME" as the subject. >> >> -- >> twitter: @norbu09 >> current project: iWantMyName.com >> painless domain registration (finally) > -- NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nzphpug+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
