Search Again: Re: dns & mail From: Global Homes Webmaster Date: Friday, February 11, 2000 Time: 1:39:00 am On 02/10/00 at 17:23, Bevan Cooke wrote: > does anyone know if and how i can configure my dns > server divert incomming mail to another mail box. > > my set up is like this: > > i have a domain, eg. mydomain.com > > i make a subdomain eg. fredco.mydomain.com > > i want fred to be able to get mail that is sent to > fred@fredco.mydomain.com > > fred has his own mail box eg. "fred@yahoo.com" and > wants any mail sent to fred@fredco.mydomain.com to go > to fred@yahoo.com > > can this be done? It can certainly be done, but it's a mail server function, not a DNS function. You need to set up your mail server (or whatever server is the MX for fredco.mydomain.com) to route Fred's mail to Yahoo!. Unless you can get Yahoo! to agree to being the MX for fredco.mydomain.com, which wouldn't seem likely. > if fred gets alot of 1mb emails will i get charged for > the 1mb by my isp? Worse than that. If your mail server is forwarding Fred's mail to Yahoo!, all his messages will go both directions in and out of your server both (inbound to your server, then outbound to Yahoo! for the forward). So, for every megabyte of message, you'll have two megabytes of traffic over your link. Christopher Bort

Messages In This Thread: dns & mail by Bevan Cooke on Feb 11, 2000 at 1:23:00 am Re: dns & mail by Global Homes Webmaster on Feb 11, 2000 at 1:39:00 am