When you send the MX traffic to the remote server, ensure the remote box's sendmail is set up accordingly for SMTP+BIND. On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Glynn Clements wrote: > > Chan Foo Bang wrote: > > > Currently, i have a mail server(Server1) running on linux box. The > > domainame is abc.net.my. This Server1 is also runing a DNS. So the current > > configuration is OK and all the mail go to this server. Every user have > > their mail box in this mail server and the user will read their mail using > > POP3 on this linux box. Well, now, we want to transfer this mail server to > > Netscape Messenger for certain reason ( NOT because linux is not good -- in > > fact linux sendmail work fine all the while). So now the mail server is > > Server2 running a MTA from Netscape Messenger. > > > How to instruct linux box to divert all the mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to this > > Server2? Is it only need to modify the DNS under MX record to point to > > Server2? I have try this MX record.. Here is what i change on the DNS under > > MX record. > > > IN MX 10 mail.abc.net.my. > > mail IN A 202.XX.XX.XX <----------------- the Server2 IP > > > When i send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the mail go to Server1 ( the old > > mail server). BUT when i send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the mail route > > to Server2 (where it is what i want). But i want the user mail to be > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( NOT [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > The above should be sufficient (unless there's something that you're > omitting to mention). > > However, bear in mind that when you make changes to your DNS > configuration, it takes some time before other DNS servers will expire > any cached data which they have. In the meantime, they will continue > to provide the old data. > > The exact period is determined by the last number in the SOA record. > > Also, if you change the zone files on the primary (master) nameserver, > but forget to increment the serial number, any secondary (slave) > nameservers will continue to provide the old data. > > -- > Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ********************************************** Mail List Account inTEXT Communications Vancouver BC Canada Corporate Intranet & Internet Security System Administration - FireWall Systems Linux Bsd FreeBSD Programming Perl / c / c++ www.intextonline.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
