Afternoon. Right I need to setup a MX record for one of my mates so that email is pushed to the destination via smtp rather than collected from a pop3 box. The domain has been registered with uk2 and they have the mx record address as uk2mxarray3.uk2.net reading as "MX 0 uk2mxarray3.uk2.net" Now the only option I have is to change the address, and I've set this up as the static IP thats used onsite, so it now reads "MX 0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" Is this likely to work fine? I can't test it untill the uk2 nameservers restart over night but just wanted to make sure it was setup right first. Do I have to add anything to the exchange server that will be collecting the mail? Thanks
You could just set up another A record of say "somethingorother.domainname.com" and point that to the IP address, then point your MX record to "somethingorother" that should work fine.
Thanks for your replies guys. Just sent a test email on the off chnce and it works, so looks like its fine with just an IP address. Cheers
Ok so its appears to be working from most mail servers but have just had a call to say that one email has been bounced because because the MX record contains an ip address and not a domain name Cuchulain - if I create another A record mx.domain.com that points to the static IP address, then use mx.domain.com as the MX record, will that work?
Ok while I've got your attention, how would I go about setting up a backup mx record? So if for instance their broadband line goes down, the mail gets sent to a backup pop3 box hosted elsewhere. Is it a case of setting another A record up to point to another host with a pop 3 box, then adding another mx record to point to that with a priority of say 10, so it would read MX 10 backupmx.domain.com TIA
Just add another MX record with a higher cost then the primary one. Something like: mycompany.com. IN MX 10 mail.mycompany.com mycompany.com. IN MX 20 mail.anothercompany.com would do the trick. The higher the cost, the less favourable the mail server will become.
