Question: I'm looking at the DNS zone page.. I would like mail to go directly to a separate server that I have.. so "
[email protected]" would go directly to my own personal smtp server. My question is there are several DNS records that I don't know the difference between.. Which record do I change to have mail point to the separate smtp server's IP?!
Answer: Change the following record with your details to change pointing to mail server,
@ MX (Mail Exchange Record) mail.mydomain.com.[21]
Mail Exchanger [MX] Record - An MX Record identifies the mail server(s) responsible for a domain name. When sending an e-mail to
[email protected], your mail server must first look up the MX Record for xyz.com to see which mail server actually handles mail for xyz.com (this could be mail.xyz.com - or someone else's mail server like mail.isp.com). Then it looks up the A Record for the mail server to connect to its IP-address.
An MX Record has a Preference number indicating the order in which the mail server should be used (only relevant when multiple MX Records are defined for the same domain name). Mail servers will attempt to deliver mail to the server with the lowest preference number first, and if unsuccessful continue with the next lowest and so on.
For more information on TXT record please goto
http://www.openspf.org/Introduction
