Hi Everybody:
i' m planning to transfer my existing domain from current hosting to another hosting provider.but is there any problem with emails of current hosting.

i was already added all my mails to Gmail ,i can control all e mails from gmail.if change hosting with current one where will transfer my emails

please respond to me.
Thank you

If you have cpanel you could do a whole account move, but if you don't you'll have to do it manually.

change-hosting is not like transfer domain. You wanna change to new host. Is it right? If that's true, you will add your domain to new hosting account (hosting cpanel), and change nameservers info in domain cpanel (NS1.newserver.com...). You do all with two steps

To transfer domains you hve to chang NS and nothing more. And don't fogeto creat th same mail adress onyour new account.

not seeing any problem will be in the domain.
give yourself a green light.

I'd say that kids is closest to providing you with a helpful response to your question.

My guess is that you're concerned about what will happen to your email when you change hosting provider. Yes?

As part of this process, you would usually change the nameservers for your domain as kids/helicopter suggested. In this case the DNS propagation period will mean that some emails destined for your domain will arrive at your old host, and some emails will arrive at your new host (providing you've configured mailboxes etc. before changing the nameservers!).

So in terms of receiving emails, it's important to keep both old/new hosting accounts open during the changeover so that new emails aren't lost - and also ensure that you check your old hosting provider for emails about 24 hours after you've changed the nameservers.

Regarding emails that you've already received... Any emails you've already downloaded (or have stored in gmail) will be safe - but any still on your old hosting provider's server should be downloaded (either to gmail or to your computer).

Now you mention that you use gmail for emails; do you retrieve them via POP3, or do you use gmail's domain email service (i.e. are emails delivered to your mailbox with the hosting provider, and then downloaded by gmail for you - or are they sent directly to gmail)?

I think you've got all the answers you needed, just one more tip, try to arrange the transfer overnight, so that nobody would experience any inconvenience.

IT doens't matter that much when he does it as the dns propagation will take up to 72 hrs..

True, but if he starts it overnight then most will be resolving the new IP by morning. 72 hours is a bit pessimistic these days?

Originally Posted by damien_ls

True, but if he starts it overnight then most will be resolving the new IP by morning. 72 hours is a bit pessimistic these days?

Actually most of DNS changes propagate within minutes these days.

But DNS caches...