Big Help needed with MX (again)

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Thu Jul 5 23:34:01 UTC 2001


In article <9i2fpf$o5u at pub3.rc.vix.com>, BCC  <bcoon at sequenom.com> wrote:
>What I need it to do is simply be a webserver, and forward email to an
>exchange server on port 25.  Im going to assume that I must have named
>running to forward email?  If this is an incorrect assumption, I would
>love to hear how else I can do it, as I dont care if this machine is
>running named or not.  I have other nameservers I can use if need be,
>and can re-register the domain with those servers.

No, you don't have to run named on the mail forwarder.  The nameserver can
be anywhere.  You just need to tell the operator of the nameserver to
install an MX record that directs mail for the domain to your Exchange
server's hostname.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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