RE: [cobalt-users] Secondary MX

["Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Background:  I have a customer with a worldwide presence.  
> They use their corporate network to host everything EXCEPT 
> www, which I provide for them. Now their local office would 
> like to have some authority over their e-mail as well.  They 
> want to have the home office handle all the existing mail, 
> and have us handle new e-mail accounts they set up.  They do 
> NOT want to migrate all their accounts to us, but for setting 
> up new accounts we are much more responsive than their IT department.
> 
> Here's my question:  If I have their IT dept. set up an MX 
> record with the name of our host (I guess we'll need an A 
> record, too) and then if an e-mail is sent to an address that 
> is not sent to the mailserver at Headquarters, will it fall to ours?
> 

If they're using name@xxxxxxxxxx you could setup mail.domain.com and
have new users use name@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx DNS will just need an MX to
point that to your server. If all the email addresses are unique they
can have forwarding setup in case someone sends to name@xxxxxxxxxx
instead of name@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on your server.
-- 
Dan Kriwitsky

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