Mail Redirection

[btrfld]

I'm looking for a way to have a Domain hosted here, but have the Mail delivered to the client's in-house server. In the depth of my ignorance, I thought this could be accomplished in CPanel by setting the MX record to point to the client's IP address. Clearly this is not the case, since all it does is cause all mail for the Domain to be bounced.

 

I'm using an account I have here for testing, and the Domain is registered here also, through Wild West. I seem to remember reading somewhere that MX direction was done at the Registrar, but I can find nothing on the TCH Domain Registration site that deals with this.

 

Help??? Anybody out there understand this area?

 

Thanks

Jim

[KevinW]

You can most certainly use the cPanel's 'Modify MX Entry' option to redirect incoming mail to a different mail server. I have done exactly that, and all I needed to do was to enter the name of the mail server (generally, in the form of mail.servername.com).

 

Your problem is that entering an IP address is NOT acceptable (per cPanel's documentation).

-kw

[btrfld]

'Kay. Thanks for the update.

 

My problem is that the machine that wants to accept the mail is not hosting a domain. Does this mean that I'm just out of luck?

 

What about the Edit an MX Entry in WHM? Same problem?

[KevinW]

no, you're not out of luck. Look at free service like TZO (www.tzo.com) which offers a free name service to an IP address. I use it to point to my inhouse Win2K server, and have email redirected to it.

 

You sign up, and get a name like mysite.tzo.com - and a mailserver handle like mail.mysite.tzo.com . Enter the mail server handle into the modify MX entry field within CPanel.

-kw

[btrfld]

Excellent. Thanks for staying with this question. I'll go check out TZO.

 

Once again, KW to the rescue, and TCH Stones

[KevinW]

You're welcome!

:-)

kw