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    • BrutalBirdie
      BrutalBirdie Staff last edited by girish

      Since version 5.6 it is possible to change the mail server location.

      My question, if changing that to something else, like mail.* will I have to reconfigure all cloudron apps?
      I know clients and software outside of cloudron for sure but also the cloudron-apps?

      Did anyone do that already and can you share your experience?

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      • girish
        girish Staff @BrutalBirdie last edited by

        @BrutalBirdie said in Changing the Mail server location from my.* to something else:

        My question, if changing that to something else, like mail.* will I have to reconfigure all cloudron apps?

        Yes, it will reconfigure the web mail apps that depend on the mail location. The non-web mail apps, are using internal mail container name, so they don't need to be restarted. If you have desktop clients, you have to reconfigure them by hand, of course.

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        • girish
          girish Staff last edited by

          BTW, it will also adjust the DNS as required as long as you use one of the programmatic DNS providers. Otherwise, you have to set this up manually (go to the Status view of each domain after you change the location).

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          • BrutalBirdie
            BrutalBirdie Staff @girish last edited by BrutalBirdie

            @girish said in Changing the Mail server location from my.* to something else:

            BTW, it will also adjust the DNS as required as long as you use one of the programmatic DNS providers. Otherwise, you have to set this up manually (go to the Status view of each domain after you change the location).

            Yes will have to do that since I use namecheap. šŸ™‚ Thanks for the response.

            EDIT:
            Will change that later this day and will report the process for future readers.

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            • d19dotca
              d19dotca @BrutalBirdie last edited by

              @BrutalBirdie That would be awesome if you could as I’m hoping to do this at the end of the month. Have my clients a couple weeks notice to update their mail clients if needed.

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              • BrutalBirdie
                BrutalBirdie Staff @d19dotca last edited by

                @d19dotca

                Update. I have finished my mail server name change.

                All the dns records where updated automatically, even the custom MX record on namecheap if it existed before.

                The one thing that confused me second was the PTR record aka. reverse dns.

                Just went to hetzner and fixed that. All working no problems.

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                • marcusquinn
                  marcusquinn @BrutalBirdie last edited by

                  @BrutalBirdie interesting, assume you changed it to smtp.example.com?

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                  • BrutalBirdie
                    BrutalBirdie Staff @marcusquinn last edited by

                    @marcusquinn said in Changing the Mail server location from my.* to something else:

                    @BrutalBirdie interesting, assume you changed it to smtp.example.com?

                    from my.* to mail.*

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                    • marcusquinn
                      marcusquinn @BrutalBirdie last edited by

                      @BrutalBirdie 🤦 of course, makes sense šŸ™‚

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                      • d19dotca
                        d19dotca @BrutalBirdie last edited by

                        @BrutalBirdie Ah good catch on the reverseDNS entry, I'll make a note to change that on my side too when I make the change later this month.

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                        • robi
                          robi last edited by

                          As long as the IP doesn't change from my. to mail. no clients need immediate reconfiguration.

                          The Reverse DNS is something that I also wanted to change for vanity reasons, but not at the expense of email.

                          Now I can. šŸ‘ 😹

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