RE: [cobalt-users] MX with External Mail Server

["Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>]

>
> I think what you are saying is that it doesn't matter what I 'name' the A
> record in my DNS for the external mail server as long as the IP address is
> correct.  Once I found that the problem was in 'accepting mail' for the
> domain on my server and corrected that, I left it alone (the old 'it ain't
> broke' axiom).  So now I have a (possibly) confusing setup where
> an A record
> that 'looks' like an internal domain actually points outside of my server.
> I could have named it 'Fred' and it would work as well - correct?
>

IIRC, you shouldn't name it anything. The MX record should point domain.com
MX mail.otherdomain.com or whatever the other mail server is called. If it's
not on your server, it shouldn't have that domain's name in it.
Then your A records would be as normal domain.com --> IP address
www.domain.com --> IP address.
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Dan Kriwitsky