Mx Records And Exchange

[Darryl79]

Hello to all.

 

This is my first post. I've been a member of TCH for almost 2 years now. I really like the sevice so far.

I'm a network administrator of sorts, and I'm just trying to learn more about Exchange 2003. I'd like to be able to pull my own mail to my static IP address at home, but I want to know if that is all I have to do, or if it is EVEN recommended....just to teach myself some more stuff. I'd like to be able to do this for other clients that want host their own SMTP mail versus using POP mail, so I figured I would be the guinea pig you could say.

 

I noticed in the new C-panel, I can't do this on my own anymore, so I would have to open a ticket.

 

Any advice that can be given, would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you.

[TCH-Bruce]

Welceome to the forums Darryl

 

Yep, just open a ticket with the help desk and they will help you get it set up.

[Darryl79]

Welceome to the forums Darryl

 

Yep, just open a ticket with the help desk and they will help you get it set up.

 

Do I have the terms right even? Is it an "A" record I change instead. It's only the IP address I need changed right? Not the Mx record

All the name servers ns1.totalhoicehosting.com and Ns2.totalchiocehosting.com stay the same?

 

As you can tell, I'm confused. lol

[TCH-Bruce]

You would want the MX (Mail Exchange) record changed. Your A record points to your website.

 

The techs will tell you the nameservers.

[TCH-Thomas]

Welcome to the forum, Darryl.

[TCH-Don]

Welcome to the forum, Darryl

Did you get this worked out?

[TCH-JimE]

Welcome to the forums, I hope you got it all sorted

 

JimE

[SimplyOwned]

Hello to all.

 

This is my first post. I've been a member of TCH for almost 2 years now. I really like the sevice so far.

I'm a network administrator of sorts, and I'm just trying to learn more about Exchange 2003. I'd like to be able to pull my own mail to my static IP address at home, but I want to know if that is all I have to do, or if it is EVEN recommended....just to teach myself some more stuff. I'd like to be able to do this for other clients that want host their own SMTP mail versus using POP mail, so I figured I would be the guinea pig you could say.

 

I noticed in the new C-panel, I can't do this on my own anymore, so I would have to open a ticket.

 

Any advice that can be given, would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thank you.

 

Glad to see i'm not the only one using exchange 2003 on here. First thing you need to do (which has already been said) is have your mail server ip address added as an A record. For instance use M1.****. Then have them set your MX record to point to M1.****. The reason for this extra step is so that a recursive check of the servers name will show that it is indeed comming from the correct domain as well for outlook web access.

 

The second change needed is only if your email is blocked due to your ipblock. For instance when a remote mail server checks my mail servers ip address it is returned as XXXX.il.comcast.net. Most mail servers who use horrible blacklisting software will not accept email which comes from home internet connections. To resolve this follow this link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821911 which should take care of any problems you have.

 

Hope this helps more than confuse. sometimes i don't explain things very well.

 

--I just tried this myself and discovered one fatal flaw... They only gave you half the info you need to finish this. you will also need to add the smarthost info to your internet mail connector as well as set it up for authentication. If your going to try this, reply to this post as i'm still trying to get it to work with dns still propogating for my domain

Edited January 4, 2007 by SimplyOwned