[lug] Handing off e-mail

Nate Duehr nate at natetech.com
Fri Dec 31 13:26:36 MST 1999


Most customers want an ISP to do secondary MX for them anyway, so he still
has to learn how to relay for them.  :)

On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 10:19:05PM -0700, Michael J. Pedersen wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 08:44:32PM -0500, Ernie Suarez wrote:
> > One of our clients, who has there domain on our server have thier own mail
> > server.  I need to configure our system so it sends all their mail to thier
> > server, which is not located at our facility, regardless of what name they
> > use.
> 
> Well, my guess would be possibly over simplistic, but here goes:
> 
> I'm assuming you're hosting DNS for them.  Go into the dns file for their
> domain, and adjust the MX record to point to their machine.  Once that's done,
> email will never even touch your machine again for their domain.
> 
> If you can do that, great.  If not, could you let me know why?  I'd appreciate
> it.
> 
> -- 
> Michael J. Pedersen
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