Exchange and dns

R

r.mahler

Guppy
Hi,

I'm working on a project... I have a domain that already exist. The website and domain is hosted by a dutch company. Now I want to offer one employe exchange hosting. I set up the dns but I also noticed that the webhoster has four mx servers registred in the dns. From the moment I put my dns in it everybody of that company suddenly didn't get their mail.8o

Is my idea possible? The give exchange hosting to one employee and let the other ones use their smtp/pop servers?

What do I have to do now with the dns? Do I maybe have to give it a other priority?

Hope someone can give me help!

Thanks!

Roy
 
The only way this will work is to forward the mail from the regular mail server to the exchange server explicitly: [email protected] -> [email protected] where the "domain.com" is probably the same domain for both servers, but you are explicitly telling the email to go to a server and not to a set of MX records..
 
ok, this looks logical... but how do you put it in de dns? I use and MX record? Let's say that the emailadres is [email protected].
Do I wright it down like, let's say: jane.watson.world.com -> jane.watson.exchangeserver.world.com?
It is correct that I have to use an . instead of a @ ?

Roy
 
That's the thing, you don't do anything in DNS other than have an A record for the exchange server. The only MX records will be for the regular mail server:

1D IN MX regularmailserver.world.com
regularmailserver.world.com 1D IN A 10.1.1.1
exchangeserver.world.com 1D IN A 10.1.1.2

Then on the regularmailserver, you put in a .forward (or whatever mechanism) to forward the mail to [email protected].

Hope that helps

-Ben
 
Hi Ben,

Thanks for your help. unfortanetly I do not have the ability to forward email. It's a function that the provider don't want to turn on. :(

But thank you very much for your help!

Roy
 
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