# Access Mailbox From A Subdomain

**URL:** <https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/access-mailbox-from-a-subdomain/696>\
**Category:** Improvements\
**Created:** [July 25, 2015, 3:37pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/access-mailbox-from-a-subdomain/696 "2015-07-25T15:37:59Z")\
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You can actually create a `custom.yaml` file in `/home/user-data/www/`

```
mydomain:
  redirects:
    ^/$: $scheme://mydomain/mail

```

Then you need to go into mailinabox/management and do `sudo ./dns_update.py ` to refresh the dns

This solution does not get overwritten during upgrades.

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