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Re: [cobalt-users] External Mailserver



> i have a client who has a Mailserver externaly from the web server. can
> someone say me how to configure the dns records (especially the mx record)
> to not have any problems when changing the web server to our network.
> are there any ressources about dns and related things?

Read "DNS and Bind". It is an O'Reily book. Very good. Just set your MX
record to the name of your mailserver, and make sure that name has an A
record to resolve to the IP of the mailserver. Assuming you know how to
configure you mail server to accept mail for the domain, it will work.

Isaac