[BlueOnyx:06274] Re: Help with webmail predicament: moving web to different server, keeping email on existing

[Jim Dory]

  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