Re: Changing mail provider in SMPmW118 (SeaMonkey)?

Robert Blair wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 15:33:34 UTC, Christer Jacobsson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> As Salaam Aleikum!
>>
>> She's about to change Her broadband provider with one that can deliver 
>> 100Mbit/s instead of the current low 30Mbit/s over the phone line. Now 
>> it so happens that She owns Her email adress '[email protected]' 
>> and the new ISP have promised Her that's OK for them if She continues to 
>> use the abovementioned email adress. So would changing the settings for 
>> fetching and sending be as simple as updating the Server settings and 
>> Outgoing mail in the "Mail and account settings" as soon as the new ISP 
>> is connected to the box and the old ISP's gateway are disconnected?
> 
> If her domain name is hosted by her current ISP and she transfers the domain 
> name to the new ISP then yes you will need to change the email server 
> settings.  If she leaves the domain name hosted where it currently is then 
> nothing changes.  I use a hosting company for my private domains so the only 
> time I need to change email server settings is if I change hosting companies.
> 

The domain 'gaea.se' is owned by Her small hobby firm but registered by 
a company called ".SE Direkt" which administers all Swedish domain 
names, i.e. those that ends with .se and they bills Her about 250SEK / 
$30 per year for keeping the domain 'gaea.se' alive. She created this 
domain in 1995 via Her hobby firm (private persons couldn't create 
domains back then) when She first signed up with Tele2 (a Swedish ISP) 
for a dial-up internet connection. After that She have used different 
ISPs over the years; Telia, Bredbandsbolaget, Telia again (Her current 
ISP) and now She will switch to ComHem as Her new ISP provider. And 
there have never been any problems with the mail access when switching 
from one ISP to another, they seem to have repointed Her domain to their 
own nameservers automagically. Why She asks this that when the new ISP 
are connected and running, She will terminate Her broadband service from 
Telia as She won't be using their services anymore except for Her old 
and trustworthy POTS telephone service which will work even if there is 
a power outage that brings down the router and computer; POTS have it's 
own power supply over the telephone line, so even if Umeaa is blacked 
out, the old telephone will still work so if She have to call 911 if She 
gets seriously ill, that old POTS telephone will still function, thank 
the Great Mother for that!

So either ComHem will repoint Her domain to use their nameservers or She 
will have to do it manually from the Domain Hanldler in .SE Direkt's 
website; they explains wery well how this should be done on their website.


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