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Our company currently has a domain old.example.

Going forward, they want to use a new domain new.example as primary domain.

  1. This means that we will host the new website on new.example and next, set a redirect from old.com to new.example. No problem here.
  2. Going forward, we will make new e-mail addresses like mail@new.example.
  3. My question is about dealing with the e-mails accounts already linked to old.com. We would like to make the old e-mail addressess available via mail@new.example. However, when somebody still mails to mail@old.example, the mail should still be received on mail@new.example.

Mailboxes will be hosted on Office 365. I will add both the old and new domain to Office 365.

How can we achieve this? Should we re-create all e-mail addresses with the domain new.example & then create a forward rule from mail@old.example to mail@new.example. There has to be a smarter way to do this? Some kind of alias method which can be used?

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    You're asking a question that is largely a matter for the mail server application to resolve, but you're talking like you expect some lower level entity like DNS to solve? – Caius Jard Mar 24 at 18:57
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    Does the process at support.office.com/en-gb/article/… work for you? Everyone has a "real" mailbox of the new domain, and an alias attached to it of the old domain (o365 knows of both domains). Mails will deliver to the new boxes and replies and new mails will go out with the new domain on so gradually the world will (should) convert to using the new domain. I put as a comment because I cannot verify (not having o365) that it will be acceptable, but let me know if it works out and I'll post as answer – Caius Jard Mar 25 at 7:00
  • @CaiusJard I will try it. Waiting to receive the admin credentials now. The dropdown part for the domain is interesting for me as then I will probably need to create an alias with the same local part before the @, e.g. ‘info’ & then pick the new domain from the dropdown. Don’t know if it will be possible to pick the same local part twice for an alias however... – BarrieO Apr 4 at 6:59
  • Should be a fairly common use case; everywhere I've worked has had several domains (to prevent fake mimic site scams) and I've had caius.jard@(all domains) as aliases of the main mailbox to catch any mistyped emails – Caius Jard Apr 4 at 9:10
  • OK, great. I appreciate your help. I’ll let you know when I’ve implemented this at the customer! – BarrieO Apr 5 at 10:11

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