I am using CentOS dedicated server with matrix control panel, which doesn't have facility to change MX record so that I can send my email to google apps mail.
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You can hand edit the DNS files to make this change. The main file should be /etc/named.conf
. In that will be two lines to pay attention to.
options { directory "/var/named";
This tells you where your DNS zone-file is based in. Then, under the zone directive of your domain should be a line like:
file "domains/named.local"
That file will be located at "/var/named/domains/named.local". Your location will be different. Open that file.
You should see a line in there for your current MX record.
example.com. IN MX 10 mail.example.com.
That is what you change to point to GoogleApps. At that point you reload the DNS process. I don't know what the exact CentOS command for this is, but you can do much the same thing by issuing a SIGHUP to the named
process.
ps ax |grep namd
4357 ? Ss 25:19 /usr/local/sbin/named
kill -HUP 4357
This forces a reload of the domain files.