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I'm moving a website to a new server. But I only want to change where the website is pointing to. So basically example.com and www.example.com. I'm afraid if I change the A record for @, mail will stop working for this website.

Right now everything is pointing to 13.119.XX.XX. I want to point just the website to the 67.91.XX.XX ip-address that the staging A record is pointing at.

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Your email (POP3/IMAP/SMTP) works with MX records, not A records. So if you change the A records, the only thing of concern would be making sure the A record for 'mail' points to the correct email web interface.

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    Only SMTP (that is MUA) uses MX records. POP and IMAP certainly do not. And more precisely, MUAs query for MX records first and use them if available, and if not then go back to A/AAAA.
    – Patrick Mevzek
    Commented Jan 28, 2020 at 17:26
  • IPv4 is legacy now so there is not only A in the DNS but also AAAA to map names to IP addresses!
    – Patrick Mevzek
    Commented Jan 28, 2020 at 17:27
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  1. change www cname "@" to example.com
  2. make and A record for example.com that points to the new IP
A     example.com. 167.99.XX.XX
cname www         example.com.
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  • @patrick-mevzek I have done it in this format so it would mimic the system that he is working on
    – Talal Al-Khalifa
    Commented Jan 28, 2020 at 20:02
  • How do you know exactly which system is he working on?
    – Patrick Mevzek
    Commented Jan 28, 2020 at 20:04
  • @patrick-mevzek I think he is using Plesk or cpanel to edit his DNS there was an image of it yesterday
    – Talal Al-Khalifa
    Commented Jan 28, 2020 at 20:10
  • Standard zonefile notation works everywhere and is understood everywhere. I do not think it warrants your edit rollback, besides the other problem in formatting or content in your answer, which I tried to address to make it nicer, but I won't battle for it. You are also badly obfuscating IP addresses.
    – Patrick Mevzek
    Commented Jan 28, 2020 at 20:12
  • @patrick-mevzek I’m just explaining why, I’m not fighting with you on it I know that your format is correct if you will edit it manually, but he is going to use a form to enter the values.
    – Talal Al-Khalifa
    Commented Jan 28, 2020 at 20:16

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