[cobalt-users] MX record change to point to MS Exchange

[george <george@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am currently trying to change the MX record for one of my clients to 
point to their MS Exchange server.

I created an A record (mail.orphan.org) to point to their IP address 
216.181.193.114.
I added the MX record. domain name orphan.org goes to mail server 
mail.orphan.org

following the instructions below I have found two strange situations.

1. this doesnt work as it is and will only work if the users email address 
is user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
2. i can't send ANY email to a user for this group if I am sending it 
through my own account on my RAQ since both sites are on the same RAQ. It 
gives me the error "user@xxxxxxxxxx - no such user". i dont have any user 
accounts setup since they are only going to be using mail through the 
Exchange server.
if the user tries to send me any email, they get the same response since 
they dont have an account setup as a user. is it authenticating somewhere?

any help is greatly appreciated!

> I will be hosting a domain on my RaQ for which they have a mail server on
> their own network. The current host provider has an MX record
> setup to go to
> their mail server (which is at a different IP address than me,
> obviously....). Anybody know how to setup the DNS on the RaQ to handle
> this - in other words, I get everything but the email, which goes to their
> IP? I know I essentially have to setup an MX record that points
> to the IP of
> their server, but don't know how to do this on the RaQ.
If you set up something like this
domain.com IN A your ip address
www.domain.com IN A your ip address
mail.domain.com IN A their ip address
domain.com IN MX 30,mail.domain.com
www.domain.com IN MX 30,mail.domain.com
it should work for you (works for me)
you can do that via the GUI by just adding the addition A record and by then
adding the MX records to point to the mail.domain.com
cheers
Jim Careywww.OZbcoz.com