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I am trying to direct emails to a local ip address and using another ip for website. The local guy told me to set it up like this but it is not working . It is still going to the local webmail on my cPanel

Zone File Records

<Name   TTL Class   Type    Record  Action>
<odomnursery.com.   14400   IN  A   174.132.29.40>
<localhost.odomnursery.com. 14400   IN  A   127.0.0.1>
<www.odomnursery.com.   14400   IN  CNAME   odomnursery.com>
<ftp.odomnursery.com.   14400   IN  CNAME   odomnursery.com>
<odomnursery.com.   14400   IN  TXT "v=spf1 a mx include:websitewelcome.com ~all">
cpanel.odomnursery.com. 14400   IN  A   174.132.29.40>
<whm.odomnursery.com.   14400   IN  A   174.132.29.40>
<webmail.odomnursery.com.   14400   IN  A   207.144.155.51>

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Whatever you tried to cut and paste didn't work well. Maybe try again and use the Blockquote formatting button. – Ward Nov 8 '11 at 17:22
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I can't see any MX record in the posted DNS records. – Khaled Nov 8 '11 at 17:49
@Khaled Which isn't necessary as long as you have A records. – mailq Nov 8 '11 at 18:51
But that is the question - to separate web and email servers. – Sandman4 Nov 8 '11 at 19:54
odomnursery.com. 14400 IN A 174.132.29.40 localhost.odomnursery.com. 14400 IN A 127.0.0.1 www.odomnursery.com. 14400 IN CNAME odomnursery.com ftp.odomnursery.com. 14400 IN CNAME odomnursery.com odomnursery.com. 14400 IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx nclude:websitewelcome.com ~all" cpanel.odomnursery.com. 14400 IN A 174.132.29.40 whm.odomnursery.com. 14400 IN A 174.132.29.40 webmail.odomnursery.com. 14400 IN A 207.144.155.51 webdisk.odomnursery.com. 14400 IN A 174.132.29.40 mail.odomnursery.com. 14400 IN A 207.144.155.51 – Mark Bolin Nov 8 '11 at 21:26
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Just add the following record

odomnursery.com 14400 IN MX 10 webmail.odomnursery.com

(Assuming your mail is like user@odomnursery.com, and the host that runs SMTP is webmail.odomnursery.com)

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Sales@odomnursery.com – Mark Bolin Nov 8 '11 at 21:23
the mail was setup on 207.144.155.51 and the odomnursery.com is 174.132.29.40 – Mark Bolin Nov 8 '11 at 21:29
mailq: thanks, I corrected it. – Sandman4 Nov 9 '11 at 3:47
Mark: replace mail.odomnursery.com with whatever hostname that have A record of 207.144.155.51 (like webmail.odomnursery.com) – Sandman4 Nov 9 '11 at 3:49
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