[purge]

Hello all,

I wonder if someone can help me with some advice. I have several pop3 mailboxes and a website with domain on a host company, but their email service leaves something to be desired. So I want to move or recreate my mailboxes to another host company.

What I am wondering is what steps I need to take since I do not have access to the mail server. I would suspect I would request some ticket or code from my current host provider, but the situation is that any new email mailbox I create on the new host should use the domain of my current web host. If that is not the case, would I need to move my domain to the new email host as well?

e.g. an email address with the current host is either surname@hostcompany.co.uk or the domain being surname@ourcompany.ac.uk

Maybe if I do not want to move the domain then is there some way of setting some config at my new host to point to the domain at the current host?

If I have not made myself clear, please ask for further details

Thanks

[serverguy]

You should be able to host the email some place and the webstie some place else.

I take it you own the domain name (ourname.com)

You need to set the DNS up so as the MX Record points to the new server / email host, but keep the A Record Pointing to your Current Host for the website.

The best way of doing this would be to contact the company.

However, it would probably be better, cheaper and more reliable to move everything to a new host, as if the email setup is junk, then the hosting probably is as well.