Search Again: Re: private MX record? From: Men & Mice Support Date: Friday, July 13, 2001 Time: 3:31:19 am At 1:25 PM -0400 7/12/01, andrew wrote: >Hi All: I have a domain I'm hosting which is using my main mailservers, so >the MX records in theirdomain.com are pointing to mydomain.com: >theirdomain.com MX 10 mail.mydomain.com >theirdomain.com MX 20 mail2.mydomain.com > >If I want to set up a different mailserver for them (let's call it >"localrouting") for a separate purpose (it will only be used for outgoing >mail), do I need an MX for that server or just an A record? > >So I'd have: >localrouting.theirdomain.com A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > >I don't want incoming mail directed to this server ever! Then you don't want an MX record. MX records are just for routing inbound mail. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!

Messages In This Thread: private MX record? by andrew on Jul 12, 2001 at 10:26:35 am Re: private MX record? by Men & Mice Support on Jul 13, 2001 at 3:31:19 am Re: private MX record? by andrew on Jul 13, 2001 at 5:10:11 am