[BlueOnyx:06667] what all needed to change server name (mail)

[Jim Dory]

We recently moved our web server to an offsite host, but kept the email 
part of the server in house. The local server's name is 
www.nomealaska.org and now I have my DNS records pointing offsite to the 
new www.nomealaska.org. Our email is user at nomealaska.org and so I have 
nomealaska.org listed as an alias for the local server. DNS is still 
pointing to our local  (no hostname) nomealaska.org.

So if I change the name to mail.nomealaska.org, keeping the alias for 
now of nomealaska.org, things should work? I tried that this morning and 
could not receive mail. (email settings in client are still set to pop3 
going to nomealaska.org and smtp is nomealaska.org.

I didn't think to try to restart dovecot or anything so perhaps after 
changing the server name I should have done that. Maillog didn't have 
anything that jumped out - but I'm not the best at reading it.

Things are working right now as is - I can shut off the web part of the 
services to avoid conflicts with the new site but things seem to work 
there for now as well - plus I'm still migrating a little off the old 
site so nice to log onto it for now.

thx for any help, Jim

-- 
Jim Dory
Engineering
City of Nome
PO Box 281
102 Division St.
Nome, AK 99762
907.443.6604

http://www.nomealaska.org