Domain and email forwarding
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We are currently have a serious issue with regards to moving our domain to our new wordpress site. Our previous site has been discontinued and we cannot map our domain to the new wordpress site before we have resolved the issue of our emails. We have 20 email in the office of our church which now needs to be forwarding to new addresses before we can re-map our domain. In the mean time we have a serious issue because our website is down on our domain and projects and information that has been advertised with our web address on can not reach our new wordpress site at the moment.
Could you please urgently advise us on this issue or what other options could be.
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If I understand correctly your previous domain mapping has finished, so you cannot access forwarding on the store-> domains?
If I were you I’d start the new wordpress blog now and keep it private until its ready to show. That way you will be able to get the email forwarding working soon. It is not immediate, it can take up to 72 hours for a domain change to propagate across the web but most people will be able to access the new site (and email) in a few hours
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Our domain is hosted at a different company with our email. When we map our domain to the new wordpress site, the email forwarding function of 20 emails needs to be used, in order to change the DNS and the mapping. WordPress only allows 5. How do we map our domain and have email capabilities for 20 mails?
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My email addresses set up at gmail stopped working when I mapped my domain names to my wordPress blogs. Before that everything worked fine. What did I do wrong or neglect to do?
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One thing that you could do is continue to use the email service or forwarding service on your current host. This would mean adding the MX records (and optional SPF) record of your existing mail host to the DNS record on WordPress. See “add email” and “add email through other providers“.
If you access your mail through webmail on the same domain you will probably need to add CNAME records, for example if your domain is “something.com” and you browse to “email.comething.com” to view your email.
If you set this up straight away (as soon as you map the domain to WordPress) there should be no disruption to the email services.
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@agnetawirberg
You need to set up the MX records on the WordPress DNS servers. Your settings on the old name servers are no longer used when the name servers point to WordPress. See the links in my previous reply, the first gives specific instructions for google apps mail
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