Re: Email, SMTP & DNS configuration questions

You should probably look at deleting it. if you up the priority...they've already said they don't support store and forward so if you're connection went down...they'd get the mail...but it would never come to your exchange server when the connection comes up.

Consider this service as a backup
http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/backupmx.html

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"Jon Lewis" <jon.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OMN2A9AQHHA.1756@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks to all who helped me with DNS questions a couple of weeks ago. I have some more questions please.

Our company SBS 2003R2 server retrieves our emails from a single primary email account (hosted by our ISP) using the pop3 connector into a global mailbox. The users emails e.g. user1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are resolved into the users mailboxes by our server (user1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx etc. are set up as aliases of the primary email name at the ISP).

Evidently pop3 retrieval cannot resolve bcc messages which get dumped into our administrator mailbox as do (for reasons unknown) all incoming read receipts, so I want to convert to SMTP.

I have gathered that I make 2 DNS record changes:

a new A record
key: mail
value: our external IP address

a new MX record
key: @
value: mail.ourdomain.com
priority value: 10

Do I delete the existing MX record value: ibmr.ISP.com. or up the priority to say 20 so that if our server is down then mail will be directed to the ISP server for later pop3 retrieval (Can I still run the pop3 global mailbox in parallel as a back up and to retrieve any mails addressed to the primary email account at the ISP itself?)

I'm asking this as the ISP state: "Store and Forward SMTP forwarding on broadband accounts is not supported. If your broadband connection is inoperative or your router/hub/server is switched off you will not be able to receive mail." So presumably this means that if our connection/server is down then emails will be returned undeliverable. Will retaining the existing MX record with a modified priority prevent this? Is there a best practise?

Also there is an existing CName record
key: mail
value: mail.ISP.com

Do I need this or should I modify or delete it?

Many thanks






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