Moving domain: how to keep emails?

Tips on email transition from @oldsite to @newsite?

[silverbytes]

Hello I'm facing a domain moving from mydomain.com.something to mydomain.com...

I guess the better way to do that is uploading the old contents into the domain.com site and putting 301's from the old domain to the new one.

1) is it better to point the root to the newsite, I mean www.myoldsite.com.something to www.mysite.com
or page by page....?
2)How do I make the email transition...? I have several email accounts... the old domain will be death in 3 months so I want to receive the email to the @domain.com accounts....
Should I park the olddomain from the new one to be able to redirect the email? Tips, ideas?

Thank you!

[Abdelrhman Fahmy]

I think you've to keep the old domain for a while and forwarding all the emails@yourOldDomain to one of your new emails
Also you have to activate an Autoresponder to send announcing email to every one use your old emails to tell them about the change

If your current domain Registration company don't offer the AutoReponders, Catch-All, and AutoForward services so you have to find a new domain registrant with those features and park your old domain there

The bad about this way is that you will get all the emails with the "[e-mail]" at the FROM field so you have to read first two lines from every email to know from who this email is coming and to which one of your old email is sent.

it's another solution by changing the MX records of your Old domain name to foraward the emails to your new mail server , i'm not sure about it but you should ask the support guys at your current webHosting company.