Please do not reply off-list. On 2018-05-28 Poliman - Serwis wrote: > 2018-05-28 13:18 GMT+02:00 Ansgar Wiechers <li...@planetcobalt.net>: >> On 2018-05-28 Poliman - Serwis wrote: >>> Thank you for advices but how setup different SMTP in MX record if >>> MX record determine pop3/imap and smtp servers? Do you mean set few >>> MX records with few mailservers? Currently I only know that I could >>> configure few MX records with few mailservers with different >>> priority. I would like to underline I could not understand you >>> properly. >> >> MX records only ever specify the servers designated for RECEIVING >> INBOUND mail for a domain. They say nothing about POP or IMAP (or >> which servers will handle outbound mail for that matter). > > Thank you for answer. How to understand what Wietse said: " SMTP is > not HTTP. With SMTP, the MX records for different domains can contain > the same SMTP server hostname. " comparing to your answer - why he > says SMTP server hostname instead of just server hostname? Receiving > inbound emails means receiving emails for pop/imap services or between > mail servers?
An MX record doesn't necessarily have to specify a server from its own doamin. You can specify a server mail.example.org as the mail handler for the domain example.com and example.net (via an MX record in the zones of those domains). Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "Abstractions save us time working, but they don't save us time learning." --Joel Spolsky
