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« on: February 17, 2004, 03:05:11 PM »

I have another domain name where i only need email. I was thinking i would park it here at LP but then i realized, i didn't want it to go to my homepage. Would it work if i use my registrar's (the other hosting company) forwarding service and just point the MX to the domain. I know i will have to register it as a parked domain. I am assuming that the main MX entry for the domain will be domain.TLD becuase that is what i see as the main one for my other domain.

Does this all sound right?
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« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2004, 07:43:26 PM »

That would probably work. Use your registrar's nameservers, create an MX entry, but not an A entry.

You could try it out.

A nicer solution (neater really) would be to put it on as an addon domain, with a blank index page. That way would be much better.
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« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2004, 08:28:22 PM »

yuo are right stephan but my way saves me $30 a year.  A mess never hurt anybody. I will give it a shot.
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« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2004, 09:07:51 PM »

Justin - if you're only going to use the domain for email, then why not just use the email forwarding feature that the other hosting company will probably have.

I do this with my Registrar (BuyDomains) and it works fine for me.

No need to park or add-on or nothing.  Just forward the otherdomain email addy to a mailbox account that you create at your maindomain account at LP.

You then retrieve email under your LP user mailbox (since the other hosting company is forwarding it to that mailbox) then to send out email with your other domain addy, just enter that in the "reply email address" config.

It's really that simple.  Razz
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« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2004, 03:53:30 AM »

I do not want that. I want it to have it's own accounts. It really seems much easier to park it but not actually park it. This way i basically get free email at the domain.
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« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2004, 06:33:41 PM »

Okay, but there's really no need to do that because you still can treat the other domain as if it's a separate account.

Maybe I wasn't clear in my explanation.

Example:

Let's call the maindomain hosted at LP = "hello.com"
Let's call the otherdomain without hosting = "welcome.com"

Via LP's cPanel, create mailbox user "welcome"

At the Registrar, you would forward "wecome.com" to "welcome@hello.com"

In email client, set message rules so that:

"orders@welcome.com" go to subfolder "Order" in the "Welcome" folder
"webmaster@welcome.com" go to subfolder "Webmaster" in "Welcome" folder
"support@welcome.com" go to subfolder "Support" in "Welcome" folder
etc.
etc.

Each email addy gets organized into it's own folders so that it doesn't get mixed up in your "Inbox" folder with all your other email.  By creating message rules which sends email directly into folders and subfolders by the criteria indicated, it makes for easy and fast referencing and you know exactly what came in from where.

You can also send out email as "support@welcome.com", "orders@welcome.com", etc.

Anyway, this is a way to have two or more businesses organized separately, yet not have to use or pay for unnecessary additional features that you don't have to.  Like I said, I do this myself and it works great.

I guess I just don't see why you need to park it, but you need to do what you need to do.

I'm only giving you a suggestion that works for me and thought it might work for you, too.
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« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2004, 06:47:30 PM »

Not only is that so complicated but i would be using IMAP so it would not work
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« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2004, 06:49:35 PM »

LOL!
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