Godaddy "website tonight"--->switch to Wordpress.

I help people switch servers all the time. The best thing to do, IMO, is to set him up with a POP3 account on Outlook so it will download all his messages and have him keep it open so it's constantly downloading any new messages.

Once that's done, set up his email address(es) on your server, then, as long as the passwords are the same, the email will come in and so long as the POP and SMTP settings are the same (which they almost always are) there shouldn't be any interruption.

Rougemont said:

I help people switch servers all the time. The best thing to do, IMO, is to set him up with a POP3 account on Outlook so it will download all his messages and have him keep it open so it's constantly downloading any new messages.

Once that's done, set up his email address(es) on your server, then, as long as the passwords are the same, the email will come in and so long as the POP and SMTP settings are the same (which they almost always are) there shouldn't be any interruption.

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So as it turns out this is how his email runs now

Someone created a subdomain in the godaddy account called www.portal.hisdomainname.net they then changed the a record of that domain to the ip of his mail server which I think is a dedicated IP from comcast.

They then set his MX to portal.hisdomainname.net

Kind of a backward fucking way to be doing things but if it works it works.

What I did to get this all working was added the domain to my hosting account giving it it's own cpanel. In that Cpanel I created all the subdomains I needed to build 4 wp sites on those subdomains

I then went to the godaddy account and changed the A record for his domain to the IP address of my VPS. I then created the 4 subdomains there and changed the A record for those also..

So far it is working and if it works it works.. again this was definitely a backward fucking way to do things..

Man, what a PITA way to do it.

It gets better.. I have all 4 sites up and running fine. he has a twitter and FB plugin.. so one of the last things on the todo list was to have him send me over his exported contacts list for each of his 3 emails..
Turns out that subdomain conencts to microsoft exchange on his server and the guy who set it up is long fucking gone.

To get the global contacts list from exchange you need motherfucking command line access?

No help to give you but had to LOL at your Godaddy/Butler "just have to buy a new house" line. If you ever decide to give up your day job as a 'neighbors helper' maybe you could do well as a comedic writer.

Yeh Word pass...
m Learing :yumyum:

I just learn Godady name, not sure what you do is right.

Switch hosting Godaddy is udder bullshit.. I cant ever get my fucking SEF urls to work on there...
fuck godaddy