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mjk
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| Posted: 03 December 2009 at 4:24pm | IP Logged
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Can I use a subdomain for MX records and getting emails. Suppose I have a domain abcd.com and I have my main email setup at mail.abcd.com and MX records points to that.
Can I create a subdomain like mail2.abcd.com and point MX records to mail2.abcd.com and setup this as a internal domain on XMail server and have seperate email accounts? I want to setup this for testing for a client till the customization is complete and then move over the original domain MX records and the only domain I have with me is my own and I cannot move my main mail server over here for testing.
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Igor
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| Posted: 04 December 2009 at 1:33am | IP Logged
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Yes, that's possible, but it's important to know if mail2.abcd.com, mail3.abcd.com etc. are served by the same machine or by different ones, this can make major difference (e.g. several XMail Server installs used).
From DNS point of view, you'll need to have:
- mail.abcd.com MX record with weight 0;
- mail2.abcd.com MX record with weight 1;
- mail3.abcd.com MX record with weight 2 etc.
From XMail Server side, there are two possible approaches for this:
1) Set up abcd.com virtual domain and create forwarding rules for mail2.abcd.com, mail3.abcd.com etc.
2) Set up real abcd.com domain which holds full list of users, and every user will have personal forwarding rule pointing to his/her actual *@mail*.abcd.com address.
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Regards,
Igor, AfterLogic Support
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