RE: [cobalt-users] Forward Email to another POP-Server

["Rodolfo J. Paiz \(E-mail\)" <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I made a account with @xyz.com so that he acceps all emails
> and I tryed to create in the dns server an mx record wich
> forwards the mail from xyz.ch to the an ip-adress.

MX records will only point to hostnames, not IP addresses.

> But this dont works, because the raqadmintool says when i
> enter the ip in the mailservername-field:
> "the mail server host name is not valid. It should be a fully
> qualified domain name that contains only lowercase letters,
> numbers, dashes, and periods."

And you've just discovered this.

> The problem is this server has only an ip adress and and not
> an domainname.
>
> So what possibilitys i have?

Well, since you just happen to have your own nameserver, create
an A record that points mail.xyz.com to this IP address, *then*
create an MX record that sends xyz.com mail to mail.xyz.com.

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