Why change email server location?

[bigbucketboy]

I noticed that I can change my email server location from my.example.com to *.example.com. Can someone explain to me why I would want to do this and what the benefits are and also what the cons would be? I don’t quite get the point of email server location?

Thanks.

[nebulon]

This is mostly cosmetic, some admins prefer for example to use mail.example.com, especially if they migrated to Cloudron while the previous mail service was using a different domain. This makes it smoother for already configured mail clients.

[BrutalBirdie]

@bigbucketboy for example Thunderbird always looks up the mail.* subdomain when trying to auto configure everything.
If you use my.* it (afair) fails to auto setup.
So basically it could be argued there is some UX involved.

afair = as far as I remember

[ApplegateR]

@BrutalBirdie that made sense why I had to fill out all form on client email..

[bigbucketboy]

Okay great. So there really isn’t a con to this or any extra setup I would need to do to change this? When we change the name does that also mean I would go to mail.example.com to access my email?

[necrevistonnezr]

@bigbucketboy said in Why change email server location?:

When we change the name does that also mean I would go to mail.example.com to access my email?

If you mean is that the correct IMAP / SMTP server in that case? yes.
If by "access" you mean a webmailer, you have to pick one of the webmailers in the appstore (Roundcube, SoGo, Rainloop, SnappyMail...).

[jdaviescoates]

@necrevistonnezr said in Why change email server location?:

If by "access" you mean a webmailer, you have to pick one of the webmailers in the appstore (Roundcube, SoGo, Rainloop, SnappyMail...).

... and install it at the (sub)domain of your choice.

[bigbucketboy]

@necrevistonnezr Great! Thanks for your guys help. It’s much appreciated.