Re: MX Records

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From: Steve (scsashland_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/11/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 09:54:47 -0700

Thank you. I will contact my ISP. The first situation you mentioned is
what I am trying to accomplish. Thanks Everyone for the advice.

"Phil" <phil@phil.com> wrote in message
news:ek3AuH8fEHA.3612@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hi Steve,
>
> I just did this a couple weeks ago myself, and I found the advice people
was
> giving me wasn't exactly clear. If you already have someone hosting your
> email (@yourdomain.org) and website (www.yourdomain.org) for you, and you
> want to keep the same mail domain (@yourdomain.org), then your hosting
> company is who you will want to update the records for you. If you try
and
> setup or change A and MX records for these domains through the Network
> Solutions management tool then your email and website will be completely
out
> of commission for a few days. However, if you have them change the
records
> then the change will not take nearly as long to propogate (took mine less
> than 24 hours) and you will still be able to access any emails still being
> sent to them through your pop account. OR you could have them setup their
> server as a backup to yours and all mail will be forwarded to your server
> once it is online.
>
> Now if you're changing your Email domain to @companyinitials.org then you
> can just follow Frank's advice below as it will not have any effect on
your
> hosted website or email.
>
> "Frank McCallister" <anonymous> wrote in message
> news:%23awPtj7fEHA.2928@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > Hi Steve
> >
> > You can leave POP3 running until you get this finished. The ISP does not
> > set your MX record, Network Solutions does. They will provide you a
login
> > name and password to manage your domain or you can call their Tech
support
> > and they will help you. What you need is an A record pointing
> > copanyinitials.org at your static IP and an MX record pointing to
> > mail.companyinitials.org priority 10 After this is setup then run CEICW
> > and set your mail for SMTP and set your new email addresses. If your
email
> > accounts on the old addresses can be forwarded until everyone has the
new
> > addresses that would be great. After the Domain is setup then the ISP
> > needs to setup a PTR record for you. If you want to keep the full
company
> > name email address then this is a bit different and I am a bit unsure of
> > how to do that. maybe someone else can jump in here.
> >
> > Frank McCallister
> > COMPUMAC
> > "Steve" <scsashland@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:%23YfTXY7fEHA.636@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> >>I am trying to setup my SBS Premium server today. I plan to host my own
> >> email with Exchange. I know that I need to have my ISP change the MX
> >> record
> >> so that it points to my server. My question is: It takes them a
couple
> >> of
> >> days to accomplish. So can I go ahead and install now? Currently they
> >> provide me with POP addresses @mycompanyname.org domain. I just can't
be
> >> without email for the next couple of days. What is the best way to
> >> handle
> >> this switch. I could just keep my laptop setup to use the POP accounts
> >> until the other works. I guess I just don't know what to expect when I
> >> call
> >> and ask them to change the record. Also, would I just give tell them
to
> >> point it to the static IP of my server or do they need to know the
domain
> >> name companyinitials.lan. My companies name is too long to use as a
> >> domain
> >> name for the network. I do have mycompanyname.org registered and a web
> >> site
> >> hosted on my ISP's servers. I plan to use the network domain name
> >> companyinitials.lan. I registered companyinitials.org yesterday with
> >> Network Solutions. Hope this makes some sense? I obviously don't know
a
> >> lot about it but I have installed it a couple of times for practice.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

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