losing MX records

[unit512]

We are about to change from exchange pop 3 to having our domain server company point our MX A records to our router.

However, they do not seem to know for sure what happens to my email on their server should my router/dsl service be down.

Sometimes they say it gets bounced, sometimes they say it tries again later.

Does anyone know?

Glenn
ACI
Computer Systems For Business

 

[netrider]

All mail will point to you and your web hosting service will never even see your mail. Mx Mail Exchanger records are in the DNS tables of the internet and is where all email to your domain will resolve to On into your router and then thru standard smtp to your mail server.

The responsibility for event messages that mail was not deliverable is on the sending computer. Some mail servers will send a message back to the user some don't. But the mail is undeliveable just like trying to get to

http://www.myfakewebsitename.com

It just doesn't exist.