MX Record

[jdl508]

Hello,
If I have an MX record that I want fowarded to a seperate server do I have to name tht other servers IP as my IP or is there a way to foward servera (63.4.4.x) to serverb(63.5.5.x) without saying in the mx record that servera = 63.5.5.x)
thanks,
jon

 

[ahsanmir]

Well i didnt quiet follow you on that. However what i have understood is this. thats you have an MX entry for ServerB but you want the mail received on serverB to go to ServerA and you dont want to add another MX record for ServerA. Well you can do that but you dont have to do that in the DNS. You can configure it through your IMS connector in the exchange. You can configure it to forward all your mails to particular domain or ip address i think it is under general. if you implement it properly you dont have to do anything with your MX records and all your mails will be dropped on your serverA.

Cheers and Allah Hafiz

Ahsan

 

[jdl508]

Thanks for the reply to reiterate my situation,
I have serverB registerd MX record
serverA is a mail providor like mail.domainname.com
serverB is mail.mysite.com
our exchange server dials out to ServerA and retrieves the mail this is the problem ServerB (my internal exchange server) won't retrieve the mail from ServerA (mail.domainname.com)
now you must be REALLy confused
thanks
jon

 

[AlexIT]

Are you using the an ETRN command (like deque.exe) to pull the mail from the other server? Is each user supported on the other server, or is there just one mailbox (*@yourdomain.com) that holds the mail for you?

Alex