Re: NEWBIE:domain webhost with 1 ISP, email with another ISP???

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Hi Kevin,

I am not quite sure that you solve my issue but to be clarify:

I want an email with me@xxxxxxx

And I want people to send email to me using the address me@xxxxxxx
And if possible, I want to send and receive email using "mail.xyz.com"

Let say I got a friend has web and mail hosting with an ISP, he can have 10
email accounts but he use only 3, he is willing to give me 1 account for
free as I cannot have my own mail server.
Let say his hosing mail server at mail.server1.ISP.com

So, come back to the original question, If I have my domain xyz.com and web
hosted at home, can I have my email hosted somewhere else, and of course,
when I said my email, I meant the address will look like some_name@xxxxxxx

Regards,

Hung Nguyen

BTW, I am using windows 2k3 and MS DNS server




"Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hung Nguyen <viethung@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> That's the thing that I dont know, or dont understand.
>>
>> If I got account with an ISP, let's say me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> and mail server to access to that account, let say
>> "mail.server1.ISP.com" with IP 111.111.111.111
>>
>> I got my domain is xyz.com at IP 222.222.222.222
>>
>> And I have mail.xyz.com as MX record.
>>
>> How do I change the mail FQDN to point to other mail server and how
>> do I access my email? Still through mail.xyz.com or
>> mail.server1.ISP.com?
>
> If I am understanding you correctly you have an ISP hosting your email at
> their server "mail.server1.ISP.com" but you would like to access the mail
> server by mail.xyz.com?
>
> Simple, set your MX record to send email to "mail.server1.ISP.com" which
> probably has a reverse lookup for its IP.
> Clients do not use or care what the MX record says, so you can create a
> Cname record for mail.xyz.com that points to mail.server1.ISP.com. Do not
> use mail.xyz.com in your MX record because MX records cannot point to a
> Cname record for the mail server.
>
> This way your MX reverses correctly to the ISP's mail server hostname and
> HELO name, while your mail clients can use mail.xyz.com to access the
> server
> to retrieve mail.
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
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