Re: [cobalt-users] Cobalt RaQ and MS Exchange...

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marc Smith wrote:

> The Microsoft engineer tells me to keep my usual MX record
> for mail.domain.com to the IP address of the RaQ and create a new MX record
> for mail2.domain.com onto the IP address of the MS Exchange Server.
> 
> The idea is that the 5 Exchange users could get their email directly on the
> Exchange Server and let the others continue as usual.
> 
> I don't see the logic in this as the mail would follow the MX record with
> the highest priority and therefore either the RaQ server will get the email
> or the Exchange server will.

He's a Microsoft engineer; did you really expect a good, complete,
answer?

> Another idea would be to create a sub-domain for the 5 users...

Create a subdomain for the five users, point the A record and MX record
for that to the machine hosting Exchange, then just do forwards for
these users.

Jeff
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