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how to forward emails for another server in my DNS ?


thanks for any idea
 
Just add the MX that references the "domain" (or zone) name
to the actual email server.

Examples:
yourCo.com. IN MX 10 mailserver1
yourCo.com. IN MX 15 mailserver2.otherCompany.com.

Of course the GUI is going to handle most of the detail
for you.

You should also need reverse PTR records (in most cases)
for the server(s) -- this is usually handled by the ISP that
assigned the addressed to you.

Note, as in the second example, there is NO requirement that
the email server be "in the domain" for which it handles email.

The SMTP server itself must however (usually) report itself
as the same name as the PTR (reverse) record will resolve.
 
V> how to forward emails for another server in my DNS ?

Forwarding of mail is a mail server configuration issue, not a DNS issue.
Apart from the ordinary mechanism of finding out which SMTP Relay server to
talk to in order to actually transport the mail, DNS has little to do with it.
 
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Jonathan de Boyne Pollard said:
Forwarding of mail is a mail server configuration issue, not a DNS
issue. Apart from the ordinary mechanism of finding out which SMTP
Relay server to talk to in order to actually transport the mail, DNS
has little to do with it.
Click to expand...

Just to elaborate, in Exchange 2k and 2k3, the option to forward mail would
be in Active Directory, under the user account properties, select to forward
their mail to a different email address.

If from one server to another, then an ETRN session needs to be setup under
the SMTP connector property.


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Ace

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory

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