MX Record Delegation

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Fri Jan 4 15:11:02 UTC 2002


In article <a12rhv$h5q at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Tom Ho <tomho at au1.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>Hi Guys,
>
>I want to delegate all emails for my subdomain  "SubDomain.MyDomain.com.au"
>to an external mail servers (third party company) in the internet.
>
>eg.:
>
>subdomain.MyDomain.com.au
>
>      MX      10      mail.thirdparty.com.au.
>                MX      20      mail1.thirdparty.com.au.
>
>
>Questions:
>
>Technically, any security and operational issues that should I be aware?

Make sure the third party has configured mail.thirdparty.com.au to receive
mail for your subdomain, and mail1.thirdparty.com.au has relaying for the
domain enabled.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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