RE: [cobalt-users] RaQ3 3rd Party MX Records

["Andy Brown" <andy.brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> I've checked the archives regarding the adding of 3rd party 
> mail servers to 
> our DNS records via the gui and it's straight forward enough but my 
> question is that the potential customer has MX records as follows:
> 
> xyz.net MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = mta.1234.com
> xyz.net MX preference = 5, mail exchanger = smtp.4567.com
> 
> The Cobalts MX records only does mx 20, 30, 40 so how do we 
> add the 10 & 5 
</snip>

Hi Chae,

unless there is a very specific reason for using 5 & 10, just set it to the closest that the RaQ can provide, i.e. 5 to 20 and 10 to 30.

The main aspect of MX's is that the lower the number, the higher priority, so as long as the main server has the lowest, you should be fine.

Regards,

Andy
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