Hi all. Question: If I have a domain, for example, example.com, hosted on my IMail server, and say the company wants to move their mail accounts to their own in-house mail server...
...if they set up the domain in-house, and I change my DNS MX entries to point to their mail server, for a day or two their e-mails will still be routed to my mail server (until DNS propagates everywhere). Will IMail automatically check the MX record and forward the e-mail to the correct server, or will it land on my server? I know the instructions for Store and Forward say the MX record should be pointing to the IMail server and their should be an entry in the HOSTS file, which IMail will check then forward the mail. But this scenario is a little different as the MX record will be changing, and I just need the Store and Forward to happen until DNS propagates. If I DO have to make a HOSTS entry, what would I enter? I'm using "example.com" (whose A record points to the web site) as the official host name and "mail.example.com" as an alias. I have the A record for mail.example.com pointing to IMail. So, if I entered... a.b.c.d mail.example.com ...where a.b.c.d is the IP of the new mail server, would IMail know to forward mail destined for "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" as opposed to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? Thanks. What a confusing question. :) -- Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.twcreations.com/ 954.721.3452 Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
