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Converting one domain to another but email will be retain

glocorp
Good Day, Kinda hard for me to explain how to put a subject, but here's an explanation/scenario. I have a client that has a hosting(domain.com) and they bought a new domain newdomain.com, they've been using the domain.com hosting and emails for how many years, now they want the newdomain.com to be the main. So when they go to domain.com it will be redirect to newdomain.com. Another thing is, the domain.com's email accounts will become newdomain.com, and all the emails inboxes, sent, trash etc will be in newdomain.com email. BUT the email accounts from domain.com will still be retain and accessible and all incoming emails will be forward to newdomain.com email. Hope you can advise me. Thanks

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  • vanessa
    Hi Add the old domain to cPanel as either a parked domain, then in cPanel go to Forwarders and add a domain forwarder. [url=http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/WHMDocs/SetupForwarding]Setup/Edit Domain Forwarding
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  • cPanelMichael
    Hello :) You could use the "Modify an Account" option in Web Host Manager: "WHM Home " Account Functions " Modify an Account" Update the domain name associated with the account to the new domain name, and then add the previous domain name as a "Parked Domain" to the account. You can then setup domain forwarding for email as indicated in the previous post. Thank you.
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  • glocorp
    [quote="vanessa, post: 1587912">Hi Add the old domain to cPanel as either a parked domain, then in cPanel go to Forwarders and add a domain forwarder. [url=http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/WHMDocs/SetupForwarding]Setup/Edit Domain Forwarding
    I already know this part.. but the old emails should be retain. [quote="cPanelMichael, post: 1587962">Hello :) You could use the "Modify an Account" option in Web Host Manager: "WHM Home " Account Functions " Modify an Account" Update the domain name associated with the account to the new domain name, and then add the previous domain name as a "Parked Domain" to the account. You can then setup domain forwarding for email as indicated in the previous post. Thank you.
    Thanks for this answer, do I need to create all the previous email domain before I forward all of this to the new email domain? before all this happen, I already parked the new domain and I'm making a decision that to forward old domain to new domain then modify the domain to a newly domain and parked the previous domain. If I create the forwarder before I modify the domain and add the previous to a parked domain, will the forwarder get deleted? or to be short will the parked domain forwarder to new domain that I've created will be deleted IF I delete the parked domain Thanks
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  • cPanelMichael
    Could you explain why you prefer to setup the forwarding before making the change? Why not just setup domain forwarding after making the change? Please see: Email Forwarders In particular: [QUOTE] Domain forwarding takes place only when a delivery is not successful. For example, if a user sends an email to john@example1.com, the following actions might take place: If john@example1.com is an existing email address or auto responder, then the email will not be forwarded. If john@example1.com is not an existing email address or auto responder, then the email will be forwarded.
    Thank you.
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  • glocorp
    [quote="cPanelMichael, post: 1589332">Could you explain why you prefer to setup the forwarding before making the change? Why not just setup domain forwarding after making the change? Please see: Email Forwarders In particular: Thank you.
    The reason is if I change the Primary Domain to the new domain, emails might be sending during that time on the old email domain, and since I change the Primary Domain, the Old Email Domain will be change too. So I was planning to create the forwarder first from old email domain to new email domain, then change the primary domain to the new domain so that the email that will be sent to the old email domain will be forward to the new email domain. Thanks
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  • cPanelMichael
    Using the "Modify an Account" option should complete the change in a matter of seconds. You could temporarily stop Exim before the change if you are concerned about email activity during that brief time period. Thank you.
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  • glocorp
    [quote="cPanelMichael, post: 1590201">Using the "Modify an Account" option should complete the change in a matter of seconds. You could temporarily stop Exim before the change if you are concerned about email activity during that brief time period. Thank you.
    Good Day, I'm done modifying the name of the account and works fine after that, one problem is that all email accounts that has a filter on that filter all incoming email to go to a folder is that the old email are receiving it but get filtered from the old email domain, sample is whenever John send an email to user@olddomain.com with a filter on, it goes to olddomain/john folder, and it doesn't catch in the user@newdomain.com even though user@olddomain.com is forwarded to user@newdomain.com, i saw this on the Mail delivery report. another problem is that all personal address, signatures and identities in roundcube get left behind on the olddomain. I test this by recreating an old email domain account and saw that all of the personal address, identities are still there, it didn't transferred to the new domain. Please advise on how to fix this. Thanks
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  • ITGabs
    I was reading some old thread and maybe you can just change the olddomain for the new one in the filters in these files [QUOTE]Well, email accounts are stored in /home/$user/etc/$domain/passwd with an associated shadow file in the same folder. So I assume if you can match the formats and hash the passwords (there are perl scripts that can do that), it should work just fine.
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