RE: Exchange newbie

[Preston Jeffares]

Title: Message

Hrm... since he's a newbie... I thought I'd spell it out a little for him.   Nick... without an mx record... if someone emailed [EMAIL PROTECTED] the mail wouldnt know where to go.  If you had an mx record for n00b.com that pointed to mail.n00b.com then the mail would be routed behind the scenes... it's a nice convenience and a standard for internet mailing.  However, without an mx record... people would have to address the mail directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED].  Even then, I've seen sporatic problems when mail is sent directly to a host without an mx record. -----Original Message----- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 4:38 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange newbie Well it still serves a purpose in that it is still required for SMTP traffic to know where to route email to your domain. -----Original Message----- From: Nickolaos Fotopoulos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 12:52 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange newbie So for my single server setup it doesn't really serve a purpose?  Thanks for the help.   Nick -----Original Message----- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:55 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange newbie Obviously, it is a special record that points to your mail server, but what it really represents, I think, is a route for SMTP traffic.  If you have multiple servers accepting email for an SMTP domain, MX records can be assigned costs with a relative relationship to assign priorities to certain mail routes.   In a single server environment it may not seem to make much sense to have a separate DNS resource record to indicate where the Mail Exchange Server is.  But some companies have multiple routes, some companies have email hosted elsewhere.      William    -----Original Message----- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 12:46 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange newbie Are you serious?   -----Original Message----- From: Nickolaos Fotopoulos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 12:35 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange newbie Sorry to hijack again, but what purpose does the MX record serve.  It seems to just be another level of abstraction between a domain name and its IP.  Can anyone enlighten me please?   Nick -----Original Message----- From: John R. Clark III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:18 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange newbie Moving the mailboxes and everything off the old server to the new one.   I was just wondering if there was a way to keep the 2 server syncronized durring the transition. -----Original Message----- From: Garland Mac Neill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 4:53 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange newbie Woohh.....   Are you moving mailboxes to a new server? Or upgrading an existing server?   -----Original Message----- From: John R. Clark III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 5:41 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange newbie   I am trying to upgrade an NT4.0 Exchange 5.5 sp6 server that is in use full time to a Windows 2000 Exchange 2000 machine. The exchange 5.5 server has been used for some 5 years with no problems. The old server was misconfigured to with a different netbios name from mx record, with aliases in the user mailboxes. I ran the exchange server migration wizard and migrated the messages to the new mailboxes without errors or warnings. What I have and would like to know... oldserver ---- netbios = some_name dns = another_name.subnet.domain.edu mx = mail.subnet.domain.edu newserver ---- netbios = newname dns = newname.subnet.domain.edu   I would like to move the mx record and start getting the mail delievered to the new server...am I going to have problems? Is there a way to syncronize the 2 servers so that mail is delievered between to 2 servers to the old and new mailboxes? I am afraid that I might miss some messages durring the mx record changeover and will need to syncronize them. I am also worried about the mailbox rules people have defined. List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm List Charter and FAQ at: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/exchange_list_charter.htm