Mail setup question

This is a example and I hope it's not too confusing but I don't want to give out the domain name I'm using so I will call it example.com for this question.
If have a server and named it mail.example.com. So if I make a account called User, I will get the mail box [email protected] The problem is the user I created has an existing email account called [email protected] I'm planning to stop the old mail server and have this one host the email. How can I get this server to assign the user the email address "[email protected]" off the old server? We can hack this through the terminal to get it to work but don't want to change the files this way. I want to know how to do it through the GUI.
Thanks

In Server Admin
Under the General Tab for Mail
Set Domain name to: example.com
Set the Host name to: mail.example.com
Then in the Advance Tab Select the Hosting tab
and make sure the "Include server's domain as local host alias" is checked.
These settings should allow any new user to have the their email default to
[email protected]
*I have noticed that squirrelmail will still use [email protected]
To fix squirrelMail you will need to go to the command line
Type: sudo /etc/squirrelmail/config/conf.pl
to mail changes to default configuration.
2 Enter : for Server Settings
Then
1 Enter :for Domain
Type your domain then Enter
Q to quite then save your changes.
Hope this helps

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