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The MX record is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System that specifies a mail server responsible for accepting email messages on behalf of a recipient's domain.

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Haproxy Forwarding Mail

I have a bit of a problem in that I am trying to forward mail on through Haproxy but to entirely different servers. The problem I am having is that there are multiple backends all going to different ...
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messed up confused dns records!

I'm totally new to this, please help. While trying to redirect the mail from my server to gmail using MX records, I think I've messed up, and I'm way confused about that. First: I can set DNS records ...
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Changing web host but not mail host

I have a client who switched their web hosting to my linode, but wants to keep their mail services on bluehost. Everything web-related switched over fine. I'm encountering undeliverable mail when ...
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Cached MX records from Network Solutions..?

The two emails: [email protected] ( Previously Network Solutions, now a Google Apps account ) other_email@other_website.com ( A Network Solutions email account ) I changed my MX Records for ...
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Google Apps Transition - Multiple MX Records?

I'm testing out Google Apps for Business for my company, and I'd like to send mail both to the Google Apps MX servers as well as my existing server. This way I can test the functionality of Google ...
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Cannot recieve incoming email on recently transferred domain - all MX records updated and have proper status

Domain Name: digiwhirl.com Edition: Free edition Affected Username/s: N/A Issue Description: Cannot recieve incoming email on recently transferred domain - all MX records updated and have proper ...
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DNS Setup for mail to two different servers

I have a stage.domainX.com and domainX.com. How do I adjust the MX records accordingly to where all mail sent to stage.domainX.com goes to one server (IP1 66.xx.xx.xx) and all other mail sent to ...
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Exchange 2010 High Availability two sites mx records

I currently have two sites where one is just a spoke that talks back the exchange server at the main site. Luckily I'm finally getting some bandwidth between the two and I'm trying to figure out a ...
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How do I setup an off-server email system, similar to Google apps.. but not Google...?

We have a website hosted on a server that does not have any type of mail system installed. I want to setup an IMAP and POP email system for my company. We want [email protected] (in otherwords, ...
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DNS - MX - Entries

I have a server and sometimes it rejects mails (Relay access denied) I added a second MX entry (MX 20). Now the question: If the outgoing server gets a Relay access denied from MX 10 does it try to ...
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MX Record, Exchange 2007 Question

If you have an Exchange 2007 server, you setup an MX record in DNS in the Forward Lookup Zone pointing to whatever prefix *.domain.com you configured in Exchange Console correct? Then you create an ...
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Need help setting up mail DNS records

We are hosting our web site on host monster, but want our email to continue to be hosted at the old site. Our domain points to the hostmonster DNS servers, but I can't figure out the right ...
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Mails sent from another mailserver within the network are rejected (helo has been denied)

I am no real network administrator, so please bear with me. In a small company we run a router that acts as a firewall and mail recipient. It forwards the mails to a Lotus Domino server in the NAT. ...
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CNAME - MX Records (Google Apps)

I need to know if I can "CNAME" older domains to a new domain names so that BOTH email addresses and browser requests will still work. I say this is because I will need emails for email1@old-domain1....
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Monitoring whether Google Apps email address is reachable

Backstory: I bungled things a bit the other day, and inadvertantly deleted the DNS overrides for my domain including the MX records that point to Google Apps, causing 2 days of lost emails. What I ...
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Changing ISP - Want to Minimize Downtime on DNS Change

I do basic IT for our company, but have started getting into more server-level stuff. So I really need a dumbed down answer if possible. We just recently switched ISPs. We are using a FatPipe ...
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Hosting mail for domain separately - using Godaddy/Plesk/MediaTemple/Heroku

So currently I have a domain name managed through godaddy. Its hosted on Heroku, and I use custom DNS zones through godaddy, as heroku doesn't host email. I have a mediatemple account, which I'd ...
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How do I set up my MX records to properly forward mail to my Gmail account?

So I have to confess that I'm not a network admin so my knowledge of DNS is very limited, and I think I've screwed something up. I own a domain--let's call it mydomain.com. I had my hosting provider ...
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Dynamic IP for E-Mail Server

I have two domains that both need to use one server that has a dynamic ip address for email. domain.com: Static IP, A record pointing to the static IP, needs to host e-mail for @domain.com but use ...
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Why does my isp advice against using an IP as MX?

I'm wondering why I've heard a couple of times that it's bad to enter an IP directly as MX record. Most ISP's advise us to create an A record with the mailserver IP and use that A-record as MX record. ...
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Does a receiving mail server (the ultimate destination) see emails delivered directly to it vs. to an external relay which then forwards them to it?

Let's say my users have accounts on some mail server mail.example.com. I currently have my mx record set to mail.example.com and all is good. Now let's say I want to have mails initially delivered ...
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Can you set default MX records for all forward zones within DNS (Windows Server 2008)

Is there a way to set some default MX records that are added to any new forward zone that is created within the DNS manager in Windows 2008 Standard? If not is there a command line I can run to add ...
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Troubleshooting PHP email sending?

I created a website that occasionally emails users when they register/change their password/etc. Every other person however cannot or does not receive the emails. They are telling me that they are ...
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DNS, should I be using A instead of CNAME?

I'm doing a big reshuffle of our websites and hosting, moving about 10 domains to a new server. In doing so I had to make some changes to the DNS, pointing all of the domains at the new server. ...
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Setting up Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server as a mail exchange server

I am a Unix/Linux/Windows Server noob. So, keep that in mind before you throw your stones at my glass house. :P I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine that's acting as domain controller, Server A. ...
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Transferring emails messages from one server to another

My domain example.com is provided by 1&1, but I recently moved my website server from 1&1 to another server, controlled with my cPanel. I have also been able to set up a [email protected] ...
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How to retrieve email at old host?

I transferred a domain (www.mydomain.com) from one hosting provider (OLD-CO) to a new host (NEW-CO). How can I download email that is still sitting at OLD-CO, to my desktop? Some email accounts have ...
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Lots of emails I send bounce back

I am running an Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server and Amazon EC2. Just booted the community, installed apache2, php5, sendmail... thats about it. Didn't change anything in the configurations. Last night I send ...
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Move primary domain hosting from GoDaddy, but keep email & subdomains there w/ non-GoDaddy registrar

Given a domain registered through DotRegistrar, with GoDaddy as the current host (shared hosting) I need to figure out how to move the hosting for the primary domain to another hosting provider (Force....
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smtp/pop3 server and mx record

I run smtp and pop3 server in local computer. I have domain name and set up MX record for this domain. Please, explain me anybody how smtp server name depend at MX record? And where must i specify the ...
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QMAIL - Do not handle emails for my domain

How can I stop q-mail from handling my domain specific emails? For example, I have a blog installed on my server and it uses PHP to make use of the mail() function to send out emails. mail('email@...
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postfix sending to last mx record

postfix is sending mail to the last preference mx record (ie:50 instead of 5) Biggest problem is the domain its sending to, the last mx record is dead so the server doesn't respond. I've tried to do ...
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google as domain mail receiver, and linux postfix as another sender?

My domain email can be handled by the google. by setting mx record and stuff to google. but i would like to have my linux server to send email to the world and not treated as spam, is it possible?
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Can I use multiple email servers at once?

I was wondering: Can you use multiple email servers at once? In this case, I was going to add all the Google Apps MX records then add the MX records of another email server. My goal here is to only ...
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MX records and CNAMEs

I realize similar questions were asked/answered on this, but I have a subtle detail to which I can not find answers anywhere. Let's exemplify with the following DNS entries: foo.example.com A 1....
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Recommend a mail server setup for multiple domains [closed]

I've just set up a new Debian web server which I have done plenty of times before, but I want to add a mail server which I have never done before. I am aware of this question, but I would like ...
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How to map email addresses on subdomains

Is it possible to create email addresses like these: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] and have them all handled by one mail server, as three different mail ...
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Migrating email forwarding entries from DirectAdmin to Google App (Free edition) [closed]

I have a website hosted in a shared hosting account and it contains a DirectAdmin (DA) control panel. From there, I can see some email forwarding entries. I would like to migrate the email server to ...
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Moved DNS and Email Hosting, Now Can't Send/Receive To/From Domains Hosted on Previous Host

Our company had 4 domains whose emails and DNS were hosted by usintegration.com, and then we moved the email and DNS hosting for 3 of the 4 domains to a new company. Now, the 3 domains that were moved ...
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Postfix appears to ignore domain's MX records

On my dedicated server, I have Postfix installed for sending email through the websites. One of my clients hosts their email with a third party so we have MX records set up on the domain. However, ...
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Is it possible to set two MX records for one domain?

I've seen articles about "different subdomains for different MX records". But I want two records for the same domain, @abc.example for example. Originally, I used Live Mail(MSN) to host my emails, ...
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How to create a default MX records for subdomains?

Is it possible to set up a default MX record for subdomains ? Example: domain example.com MX record set for example.com to mail.example.com MX record for sub2.example.com to mail2.example.com Is ...
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"hostname given in the SMTP greeting MUST have an A record pointing back to the same server."

I get this error when checking my DNS with an external tool: Spam recognition software and RFC821 4.3 (also RFC2821 4.3.1) state that the hostname given in the SMTP greeting MUST have an A ...
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Do MTAs always queue mails when they can't connect to dest MX server?

At our (small) office we're deciding whether to have our MX record point to our local Exchange server. I was a bit worried about downtime, so thought that I ought to set up a backup MX server. Then I ...
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Google Apps, MX records and (some) lost email

I've been using Google Apps for a few domains for quite a while now (3 domains for 2 years or so) but recently suspected that I was 'losing' mail on one of the domains. After checking spam folders and ...
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Need help movig DNS providers (ZoneEdit to DynDNS)

I have a domain name and I use GoDaddy as my registar. My DNS provider is ZoneEdit. I'm staying with GoDaddy as my registrar, for now, but I want to switch DNS providers to DnynDNS. I already ...
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How to change mx record in cent os web server without third parties cp

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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How to make sure that in case of our mail server being unreachable (connection down) mail still gets queued and resent once it's back up?

We have had some issues with losing internet connection once in a while. Normally that would mean our mail server is unreachable and incoming email is bouncing. We've set up MX Backup (second MX ...
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domain and sub domain with different MX records

I am trying to segregate email address of my employees according to the geographic location. so i have thought of creating email with location information as [email protected] or [email protected] ...
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Configuring domain to direct email and web traffic to different IP addresses

I'm totally fine with setting up sub-domains etc when managing my domain but I've recently been asked to direct all mail for a domain to a particular exchange so people can retrieve email for the ...
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